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Baxter Springs news., 1919-05-23
JAPAN MAY RETURN SHANTUNG
TO CHINA IN THE NEAR FUTURE

A Washington dispatch Of May is
quotes Viscount KikujirO, the Japan
ese Ambassador as stating that Shan
tung will be returned to China as soon
as the details of the procedure are
fixed. The viscount declared, It il
stated, that, Japan heartily agrees
with the United States on the prin-
ciple Of the open door and equal OPP
portunitx for all nations in china ana
also in Siberia.
The Viscount said in part as fol-
lows:
T am optimistic about the relations
between Japan and the United States,
whatever may be the tone Of the press,
because there is no real conflict Of in
terest. The only important question
now is with regard to China, especial
ly in regard to the sO-called Shantung
question The best way to treat this
question is to expose before the AM
erican public the true facts Of the
case, as the facts explain themselves.
with the principle Of the open
door and equal opportunity, not only
in China but in Siberia also, Japan u
in hearty accord with the United
States, and with the sincere and
hearty cooperation of these two pow
ers can see no possible source Of con-
fiict between them in the affairs Of the
Orient"
Baxter Springs news., 1919-05-23
WDMAN'S SUFFRAGE
FIRST BILL UP
Congress Opens With Avalanche
Of Bills-May Ignore Presi-
dent Wilson's Plea
for Beer and Wine

Washington, May 20.- Arrange
ments were made tonight by congress
sional leaders for immediate consider
atom Of the vast legislative program
outlined by President Wilson.
The presidents cabled message was
read, separately in the senate and
house today by clerks.
The first measure Of the program,
the equal suffrage resolution, will
come up tomorrow in the house:
Makes Many Recommendations
Major recommendations Of the
PRESIDENT were for:
Early return to private ownership
Of railroads, telephones and tele-
graphs.
Repeal Of wartime prohibition, in
sofar as applying to beer and wines.
Woman suffrage.
RetaliatOry tariffs.
Protection of the dyestuf industry.
Labor and employment measures.
The president announced his inten-
ton to turn back the railroads at the
end of the calendar year.
Republican leaders met the presi-
dents proposal for early return of
public utilities by statements that
such elgislation was already planned.
May Not Permit Beer
As to the prohibition recommenda-
ton, both republican and democratic
"dry" leaders Joined in vigorous state
ments dissenting from the presidents
suggestions and predicting that no
beer and wine repeal would be passed.
Opinion in both senate and house
as ascertained by leaders was general
that the ban of beer and wine would
not be lifted.
Presentation of the presidents mes
sage was the principal business at to-
days session. Neither the senate nor
house were in session much more than
an hour, the former adjourning until
next Friday and the house until to-
,mbrrow.
Before the presidents message was
read, the house arranged to take up
tomorrow the woman suffrage resolu-
ton. Its adoption before adjourn
ment is planned Senate leaders have
promised action in the upper body,
probably early next month.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-05-23
SESSION WILL DECIDE
Party Position Will Result-in Naming
Candidates, Says Long

The present session Of congress will
result in the naming Of the next presi-
Dental candidates, in the belief OF
Chester l. Long, of Wichita, former
United States senator.
"The Republican majority in con-
gress can decide" Mr.. Long said. "If
they want to turn down the league Of
nations ratification, then it will be
up to the Republicans to nominate
some leader against the league like
Borah. II they 90 ahead and ratify
Il, the campaign viii be on domestic
issues and the candidate will be picked
with this in mind.
'Tf the Republicans refuse the
league, then they will force Wilson to
run again on that issue. Otherwise, /
don't think he will be a candidate"
Mr.. Long is strongly in favor Of the
league Of nations.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-05-23
WHY GERMANY PROTESTS

Count Brockdorf- -Rantzau, the Ger
man Foreign Minister and head of the
German peace delegation, is at present
in Berlin. Whether his journey to his
home capital is merely for the purpose
of getting instructions from his gov
ernment regarding the German reply
to the Peace Treaty or whether it
marks a break in confidence between
the Foreign Minister and the Ebert
Scheidemann government, is uncer-
tain. It is considered quite possible
however, in view of the continued Ger
man indignation over the Peace terms,
that the Count is leaving the Confer
ence for good. This may mean that
the Government has decided to reject
the terms or that Count Rantzau will
be replaced by q less head-strong re-
preventative.
The newspapers in Germany con-
tinue in their outbursts Of impOtent
indignation. Some Of the papers in
sist that the peace terms should be
rejected on the ground that such re-
lection, with the subsequent Occupa-
ton of German territory by Allied
troops, would be infinitely preferable
to the full acceptance Of the Entente
terms. The Vowarts, the Socialist
paper, which last week urged its read
ers to follow the example Of '1ittle
Belgium" and stand out against the
treaty, seems now to have relapsed
into despairing acceptance Of the in
evitable. The VOrwarts says, editor
tally:
Elbow will the former (thOse for ae-
ceptance) face the people after they
have signed its death warrant, and
what viii the latter, (thOse for rejec-
tion) do II the Entente uses all the
means of pressure at It's disposal to
compel signaturei The truth Is that
in either case the German Federation
viii have ceased 10 exist There win
be no more German Government, no
Baxter Springs news., 1919-05-23
EAIPORIA NORMAL
GRADUATES las

EmpOria, Kan, May 20. Degrees
and diplomas were granted to lab
candidates at the fifty-third annual
commencement of the Kansas State
Normal School held here this week.
Thirty-fOur more students will COM
plete work for their degrees at the
close Of the summer school.
Most Of the graduates already have
positions for next year at salaries
ranging from $1,000 to $500 for the
degree students and from $500 to
$1,000 for the life certificate Students
The graduates come from nine
states, Kansas, Nebraska Oklahoma
Arkansas, Texas, Missouri, Iowa. IL
linois and Ohio. Nearly every county
N Kansas contributes to the graduet-
ing class.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-05-23
WILSON N BAD
WITH HIS CHURCH
Presbyterians Pass Resolutions
Requesting Congress to
Sustain War Time
Dry Law

st. Louis, No., May 20.-President
Wilson was arraigned today by com.
missioners to the 131st general assem-.
bly, of the Presbyterian church, U. S
A., for requesting congress to repeal
or amend the wartime prohibition aci
and a resolution was adopted urging
congress to sustain the law. Presi-
dent Wilson is an elder in the church
A copy of the resolution will be
cabled to the president. It follows:
"This assembly learns with pain
that the president Of the United States
has recommended to congress that il
repeal q part of the wartime prOhibi-
ton act, and in view of this fact we
most earnestly petition congress that
it not only retain the measure, but
that the measure be enforced to the
fullest extent to the end that the needs
of the world for food may be met and
that the efficiency and morale Of our
own people be preserved"
When the resolution was read the
commissioners applauded for several
minutes.
The Rev. DR.. w. M. Hindman, Of
Columbus, Ohio, declared, "such a
stand is very unbecoming for an elder
in the Presbyterian church and for a
man holding SO high an office as that
of president of the United States"
B. E. P. Prugh, of Harrisburg, Pa,
state chairman of the prohibition or
ganization of Pennsylvania, asserted
''this is the second time President VIII
son has. stepped in to befriend the
liquor interests and means the undo
ing of all that has been DONE"
: Enforcement of wartime prohibi-
tiOn:was emphasized further in the re-
port of the temperance committee,
which requested congress to oppose
all efforts to rescind any part Of war
time prohibition to become effective
July.-1." The report advocated world
prohibition.
Brewers who carry their business in
foreign lands were denounced and con-
gress was asked to defranchise any
citizen who carried on in a foreign
country a business unlawful in this
country.
The committee deplored the use Of
cigarets, especially by women, and
urged upon Presbyterians not only the
personal non-use of them, but the pro-
motion of all possible legislation
against them.
Forty billion cigarets, costing $4O0,-
100000, were consumed during 1913,
the report stated and If placed end to
end, would encircle the earth six times.
Cigaret smoking increased 100 per
cent since the war started and 1900
per cent since 1900, according to the
report.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-05-23

Lieut.. and Mrs. John F. Noble, Of
Tulsa, Okla, are visiting Lieut.
Mobiles mother, Mrs. B. s. Kuhn, 1121
East Twelfth street. Lieut.. Noble has
been stationed with the 3Srd U. s.
Infantry at Gatun, Panama, for the
past fourteen months. reeeiving his
honorable discharge on Nay 9th upon
arrival in New Orleans. Lieut. and
Mrs. Noble spent several days In New
Orleans. Shreveport, Las and Tulsa,
Okla, before arriving here. Aftsr .
visit IN this city they win return 10
Tulsa where Lieut. Noble Is in busi-
ness.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-05-23
ILLEGALLY MANUFACTURED
BEER TO BE TAXED

Closely following his recent opinion
to the effect that, regardless Of the
percentage of alcoholic content, the
manufacture of beer is unlawful, At
tOrney General Palmer has given an
official opinion to the Treasury De-
partment to the effect that under the
Food COntrol Act and the Presidents
proclamatiOns, any brewer manufac-
turing or selling beer is liable to an
internal revenue tax Of So q barrel.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-05-23

Harold 7. Wright, is in the city siz-
ing mp the conditions here with a view
to coming back here to establish his
home. Mr.. Wright, when he was call
ed into the service of Uncle Sam, was
conducting a real estate and insurance
business in Baxter. He was q strong
booster and q firm believer in the city
and since leaving here and seeing any
number Of new places, he continues TO
believe that Baxter s on a par with
the best in the matter Of business Op-
portunities.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-05-23

M. B. Phillips of Mt. Vernon, NO.,
Is the week end guest Of his brother
and family, F. E. Phillips, TAB Wyan-
dOtte sysnue. Mr.. Phillips has been
in Oysrusas service belonging to the
Thirty-Afh division. Saturday Mr.
and Ms. Phillips will return with
their brother to Mt Vernon where
they will visit over Sunday with rela-
tives. o.:
Baxter Springs news., 1919-05-23
LUNDGREN TO NEW MEXICO

G. e. Lundgren, former manager in
Baxter of the LOng-Bell Lumber COM
pany's yard for number of years and
always considered one Of the city's
most consistent boosters, is leaving
Baxter for Springer, N. NJ, cattle
and irrigation tract country, where he
will re-engage in his old line Of busi-
ness, lumber. He says, also, he will
take up claim. Springer is in north
ern New Mexico.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-05-23
THE FOUNDING Of
SCHOOL OF MINES
Courses to Start Monday Night
NO Charge for Tuition
Success Depends on
Baxter's Attitude

With the unpacking Of the equip
ment from the University completed,
the new Baxter School of Mines will
be ready to start courses Monday
night. X. L. Koelker, Of the Oklahoma
Mining Company, and a graduate of
tn Colorado School of Mines, has been
secured as teacher of a class in chem
istry. The laboratories in the base
ment Of the library building are ar
ranged and q good supply of chemicals
has been put in preparatory to the
first class, Monday night.
There is no charge for tuition. The
expenses of the schools are furnished,
half by the National government and
half by either the state or local gov
ernments, or both. Under the pro-
vision of the Smith Hughes bill, sew
eral thousands of dollars will be avail
able in the Baxter Springs mining dis
trict for educational purposes. In or
der to secure this money at least four
must be enrolled in each class. The
students must be over fourteen years
of aga and must be engaged in some
occupation. The course in Chemistry
can be attended only by miners or
those who intend to 60 into mining or
who intend to teach Chemistry or min
ing.
With the opening of this first class
Monday night there begins an inter-
esting experiment in education. Upon
this experiment depends the fate Of
the Baxter School of Mines. In the
course is successful there is no limit
to the number or extent Of new
courses which may be opened. Glasses
in mining, milling, mine accounting,
automobile repairing, or almost any
vocation can be started with compe-
tent instruction in all Of them. How
ever, there is no intention of throw
ing away this appropriation for edu-
cation and in case there is little inter-
est in the proposition it will soon be
dropped. It's up to Baxter Springs
to exhibit enough interest in it to lay
the foundation for a regular school Of
mines. There can be little doubt but
what there is this interest in the midst
of the richest lead and zinc mining
district in the country.
For the first five weeks Of the
course in Chemistry, Mr.. KOelker in
tends to take up the assaying of lead,
zinc and iron ores as found in this dis
trict. There will be little attention
paid to theoretical chemistry but the
time will be spent on practical assay
ing work. The work on lead and zinc
in this district is comparatively simple
as there are few interfering elements
and it is believed that q working
foundation in the assaying Of zinc,
lead and iron can be secured in five
weeks time.
The classes will meet twice a week,
on Mondays and Thursdays from 1880
to $3.50 o'clock.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-05-23
WILSON URGES.

Recommends repeal of wartime prohibition law
on beer and wine.
Announces return Of railroads, telephones and tele
graph lines to private owners, abandoning government
ownership policy. Railroads viii be returned first OF
January, 1920
Urges revision Of war taxes to abolish manufac
turers and retailers excuses.
Urges enactment Of woman suffrage constitutional
amendment.
Urges that teeth be put into tarf laws to protect
our industries from foreign attack.
Urges broad expansion of shipping policy.
IndOrses Secretary Lanes "bacl4 -the-land" plan
for returning soldiers.
Says nothing about peace treaty and league Of ma
Ons preferrng to talk to congress hbOut them after
Germany acts and he gets home.
Calls attention to need for partnership between
labor and industry, and "a genuine characterization of
industry"
Baxter Springs news., 1919-05-23
HUNS ARE GIVEN
AN EXTENSION
Under New Terms They Must
Make Reply by May %
See Ruin in Compact

Paris, May 22.-The German peace
delegation has been granted an exten-
sion of seven days, or until May 20,
in which to reply in full to the peace
terms, according to an official an
nouncement.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-05-23

Mr.. and Mrs. C. N. Harlin and son.
sDonald, are visiting this week at the
home Of their daughter, Mrs. Gene
Lemons.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-05-23

London, May 22-Thursday- Fred
erick William Hohenzollern, the form
er German crown prince, will be liable
to trial under the terms of the Ger
ma npeace treaty, it was declared by
Andrew Bonar Law, the government
leader, in the house of commons to-
day. Mr.. BOnar Law said that the
commandants of prison camps also
would be liable under the treaty's
terms.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-05-23

Berlin, May 22.-Germany declines
to sign the peace terms laid before it
because they spell the economic de-
struction, political dishOnor and moral
degradation of the entire German ma
tion, not only for the present, but also
for still unborn generation" was q
statement authorized by the cabinet
this morning through the Associated
Press.
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commissioners; w. B. Montgomery,
clerk; S. M. Abel, returning officer.
Notice is also hereby given
that on the 18th day of November, 1919,
the first day following the election, at
twelve O'Clock noon, the police jury of
the Parish of Grant will meet at the
court house at Colfax, Grant parish,
Louisiana. and there. in public session
open the ballot boxes, examine and
count the ballots, both as to number
and amount, and examine and canvass
the returns and declare the result of
said election and promulgate the same.
Given on this the 9th day of October,
1919, at Coifax, Louisiana.
JOHN RANDOLPH.
President Police Jury.
H. L. BRIAN, Clerk.
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RED CROSS FUNDS
FOR HOME USE
LIONS SHARE Is TO STAY IN
CHAPTER TREASURES.
To Be Used for Health, Nursing, First
Aid, Disaster Relief.

New Orleans.-Here Is a message
for every man, woman and child in
Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi.
The message comes straight from Ho-
mer w. Borst, manager for the Gulf
Division of the American Red Cross
Call, which Is now in progress, and
which Is to reach its successful con-
clusion on Armistice Day-the first
anniversary of the close of the great
est war of all times:
First of all are the financial needs
Of national headquarters. On Septem-
Der 30 the Red Cross national treas
ury contained 14,500.000 dollars; $751;
100000 more than that is needed for
the honorable completion of work
abroad. 1t is true that on February %
much larger sum was available, but
this sum has been used since then in
the absolutely necessary relief meas
ures which the Red Cross was COM
PEELED to institute at the withdrawal
Of the armies from the allied countries
Of Central Europe, and also in the
s<ooAoeoASO 6ANOA " luC thOuoal0o vi
wounded soldiers in American army
hospitals.
During the period of four months
after January 1, 1919, the expenditures
by the Red Cross for these purposes
were the largest in the history of the
organization.
THE next need which the Red Cross
is preparing to meet, as enthusiast
cally as any need uring the war, is
the home need, the need for Red Cross
service to the people of Louisiana,
Mississippi and Alabama. Under the
banner of the Red Cross. which has
never known defeat in any field, the
people of the Gulf Division are going
out to win greater happiness and bet
ter civic life and health.
1T is fitting that the campaign ends
on Armistice Day That is the ami
versary of our defeat of great and
dangerous foreign enemy. 1t is the
beginning OF renewed fight, and an
ultimately victorious fight against in
ternal enemies no less formidable, and
no less entitled to be laid low. Those
enemies are poverty, i'll health and ig
norance. The victory means health,
happiness and public welfare. The
Red Cross Call is humanity on the
march,"
One-half OF every membership dollar
remains right at home to perform
these local tasks. Also the larger part
of all cash contributions will be en-
ployed in whatever local welfare work
the chapters decide upon. :.
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W0MEN'S WORK Is NEEDED
NEW RED CROSS PROGRAM CALLS
FOR CONTINUED PRODUCTION.

New Orleans.-The Greatest Moth.
or in the World" is not content to
fold her hands and allow her deft,
needle-scarred fingers to lie idle in
her lap, now that the war is over. Sc
many of the Red Cross workers in the
Gulf Division wanted to continue their
work for humanity, that a new pro
gram has been outlined along the lines
of which each chapter may work to
aid the folks at home.
This program makes a number of
suggestions, and gives each chapter
a more or less free rein as to the
things it will choose as most badly
needed In that particular locality. For
instance, there is the "loan closet"
These closets will be well stocked with
such supplies as pajamas, night
gowns, slippers, bathrobes, baby lay
cites, and the like, so that poor fam
lilies. suddenly stricken by Illness, may
borrow what they need, returning
the materials when the emergency has
been tided over. The articles then
can be sterilizcd and replaced in the
loan chest" for use on other occa-
sions.
Another suggestion is that of MAX
ing hospital supplies, surgical dress
ings and the like, just as in the black
days of the war. These will be used
not only for the military hospitals still
In operation. but for civilian relief
for charity hospitals, and for
free clinics.
Mrs. William j. Hardee. Director of
Production for the Gulf Division, said:
$50 many women have asked for
something more to do, and there are
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that chapter production win continue
Tor some time" 80