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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1919-05-30
1900 New York Doctors
Fighting Poison Gas.

Do you know that you folks at home
as we'll as the brave boys "ovcr there"
are menaced by poison gas''-the
insidious kind that steals away hcal;h
and the JOY of living, in the perperuaily
recurring disturbances resulting froEa
a gassy, sour stomach.
1900 New York physicians regularly
prescribe JOHNS DIGESTIVE
TABLETS as the most perfect form
of relief known for these stomach dis
orders. The TABLETS are highly
beneficial for gastric and intestinal
indigestion, heartburn, acid or sour
stomach, hatulence and gastric catarrh.
They sure do vanish that poison gas
which is the basis of most stomach
ailments, as well as banish bad breath
which usually heralds that gas.f!i"1
stomach. =,
Get the TABLETS at your drug
store. They insure quick, lasting relici
by taking three to six dissolved in a
Class Of water or chewed before sw2,l-
owing. Have JOHNS DIGESTIVE
TABLETS handy in the dining room
for chronic cases OF gastric or irtce-
final indigestion as one or two tt
LET'S should be taken before oaci
meal =
Y. n JOENI 90.
$50 Crosdway Flew York 81,
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1919-05-30
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The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-19

said that ! was on the war trail of
bogus lunacy law throughout the Unit
ed States and that | was going TO hire
a hall in Richmond and hammer on it
and talk them to death and write them
to death. Well. gentlemen, / hired
that hall in Richmond, Va.-the Rex
picture theater still in full and -four
fishing operation. and actually talked
there twice q month for from one to
two years"
He then explained that he was
forced TO stop the Sunday night lee
lures by the Virginia blue laws, and
continued:
$50 you see, gentlemen of the
Fourth Estate nothing but what the
French term force majeure-superior
force-forced me off of the trail Of
bogus lunacy law. But, whereas, |
may possibly be forced off n trail I
am on temporarily 1 cannot, humanity
speaking. be kept off a trail. And you
may be surprised TO hear that the
Rex lectures of Richmond Va. will
reopen in the auditorium of the Coop
err union at SIS O'Clock, the second
Sunday night in November next
Doors open at z 40, free gratis"
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-19
JapS Soon Will
Crowd California
Their Birth Rate in That State
Has Been Increasing
AIarming'y.
WHITES BECOME WORRIED
Condition Is Most Notable in the Fruit
Sections-YeIIow Race Now Almost
Controls the Placer County
Vegetable Industry.

San Francisco, Cal-The birth rec
ords of the bureau of vital statistics
of the California state board of health
Indicate that the japanese population
in the state is increasing at a rapid
rate From 1906. when the Japanese
births were 1874. they have increased
steadily to 4,219 in 1918. While there
is no separate record of the Japanese
population, the birth record is taken
as absolute evidence that the number
of japanese families residing in the
state is steadily increasing.
This increase is most notable in the
fruit sections. where the Japanese
have colonized and are now In compe-
tition with the white fruit grower. The
greatest increase is in Los Angeles
county, where. In 1918. there were
1929 Japanese births recorded.
In the Fruit Counties.
Alameda, Fresno. Sacramento. San
Joaquin and Santa Clara, all extensive
fruit counties, show large number OF
Jaranese births for 1918 but only in
Sah Joaquin and Santa Clara is there
any Increase over the record of 1917,
anG In these cases IL is only very slight.
In San Francisco, where the Japanese
population is admitted to be very eX-
tensive, the births in 1918 were only
261, as against 263 in 1917, indicating
that the japanese population had not
Increased to any great extent except
during the last two years. This same
may be said of the interior, for the
total increase of Japanese births I'm the
entire state was only Ill more in 1918
than i'm 1917.
The japanese births registered In
California from 1906 to 1913 are as fol-
lows:
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-19

part of the interest in this proposed institution
centers on what ii can do for enlisted men as well
for officers.
The engineer trade school which is to be estab-
lished will embrace all these branches: Black
smith. carpentry, drafting, surveying electricity,
gas engines. automobiles, photography, steam en-
gnes, masonry. photography. plumbing. rigging
stenography, oxyacetylene welding. machine shop
work, railroad operation and camOufage
complete model has been made of the pro-
posed school and outlying accessories. For the
College of Military Research there will be one ad-
ministration building 70 ur large central buildings,
respectively for records statistics and mechanical
and electrical laboratories; four smaller buildings.
for chemistry. one for physics and two for
lecture rooms; library building. and village
of $50 separate houses for officers. churches, club
garage, Fairgrounds, and all necessary utilities
In addition these buildings and properly
grouped there be academic building
and two recitation buildings, auditorium, Il
museum, library laboratory and other StruC-
lures. Buildings corresponding in size and in
equipment and grouped so as to insure uniformity
coupled with beauty will be necessary for the
school directly connected with the vocational
training of the enlisted and the officers.
1t has been evident for time that the at
tentiOn of the military authorities is to be given
in the future to the vocational training of young
men, be carried side by side with their mill
tary instruction. The school at Camp Humphreys,
as has been said, is not the only school which 1t
is intended to establish, but it probably will be in
q sense the parent school and the one which will
be secured schools of the other branches
of the service.
Men who already have attended the school at
Camp Humphreys have spread its fame as an
educational institution. In the words of Col.
Richard Park OF the corps of engineers who has
had this project at heart, and who worked daily
and nightly to perfect 1t in every detail:
1T will be the function of the trade schools not
only to develop the skilled personnel needed for
military work, but also insure every soldier
thorough training in some trade which will be a
benefit to him after leaving the service. This viii
attract much better school of recruits under the
volunteer system of training and will be im-
portant factor in the maintenance of morale under
q system of universal military training
No one knows how large force ii will be neces-
sary for the United States to maintain for pur-
poses of defense and preparedness, but whether
the force be large small the evident intention OF
the government authorities is TO to it that men
who enter the service shall have opportunity to
educate themselves along lines other than those
which purely military
Copyright 1913. Western Newspaper Union)
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-19
Japanese Film Censors
Kill Thousands of Kisses

The police of Japan did not
like to see kissing In public, and,
therefore, film stars are not per-
mitted TO osculate on the screen.
In six months up to March / the
police censors removed 1850
kisses from the films.
Only one kiss was allowed to
remain. 1t was a kiss granted
to Columbus by Queen Isabella
and was shown In Toxic only. as
the censors deleted 1t before
permitting the photoplay Co
Iumbus" to appear in the
provinces.
Three hundred and fifty-three
embraces were omitted from
films, states the Far East. The
titles of 2.144 photoplays were
altered by the censors and 127
murder scenes were killed.
Reels entirely prohibited num-
bered 81.
Most films shown In Japan are
from America and a large pro-
portion of them originally con-
tain a little kiss or so. showing
the difference I'm standard be-
tween the East and West.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-19
Brands AlieniSt
ASHead Hunter

solemn cOnclave assembled in my suite
at the Hotel Brevoort: Greeting.
Some seven years ago this summer
L called an even larger convocation Of
the scribes to meet me in conference
on the southern bank of the Potomac,
at Alexandria, Virginia-in other
words, since in those distant days of
1912 the atmosphere of the northern
bank of the Potomac was too rich for
my blood, my habitat then being strict
ly confined TO the borders of the states
of Virginia and North Carolina, in
which two states / had been found by
judicial process both sane and COM
petent
Some twenty newspaper men, rep
resenting the greatest papers of the
East, West and South. gathered to-
gether TO hear what / had to say. 1
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-19
eonAR LAW AN IRON MERCHANT.

Mr. Bonar Law. despite his name, Is not in the
long list of who were in the legal profession
before taking up politics. He Glasgow iron
merchant keen business man, and he estab-
lshed his reputation at Westminster in a single
speech.
One of his most remarkable faculties is his gift
for memorizng. This applies particularly to fig
ures, and he has COMPOUNDED many opponent
by correcting him, from memory. on some vital
point of statistics He store more figures up
in his brain than the average man could write in
q notebook.
But perhaps his most valuable quality is that
of sticking It," He has stuck to his job more
than once while suffering from personal sorrows
which would have bowled over less resolute
Answers, London.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-19

queer" wrote the author. that you
should shy at a green leather arm
chair in a Roman emperor's cabinet.
The ancients had no rocking chairs
but they had armchairs aplenty. Their
artists disliked to paint or carve arm
chairs, the arms broke the lines of
the figure in the chair. But they had
armchairs as comfortable and varied
in design as we have" AS for the
green leather. he goes on to say that
the Greeks and Romans were fond
OF red. blue and green gloss feathers.
which were really what we now call
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-19
placer County Folk Alarmed.

The Increase in the Japanese pop
ulation In the state has so alarmed GER
tain sections that public meetings have
been held to discuss means of provid-
ing against the further encroachment
O, the orientals. Such meeting was
held recently at Newcastle. in Placer
county. where 1t was found that the
Japanese births were nearly twice the
number of whites In 1918. In 1917
there were CT japanese born In Placer
county and 119 whites. In 1917 there
were 90 Japanese and 70 whites and
in 1913 123 japanese and 81 whites.
Assemblyman Ivan Parker, from
that county. who investigated the SUBJ
jeet, makes the following statement:
81 am told that the Japanese. at
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-19
John Armstrong ChaIoner viii
Try to Reform the Bogus"
LunaCy Laws.
.REC9NC LED WITH FAMILY
Having Been Declared Legally Sane,
He Plans Campaign to Obtain
jury Trial for Those Sus-
pected of Being Insane.

New York.-Branding alienists as
''head hunters, who. for a price, will
send any man to the madhouse," John
Armstrong Chaloner, sage of Virginia
and author of who's Loony Now?'
announced the other day his inten-
ton of devoting his life and fortune
TO fighting bogus lunacy laws" Tile
campaign which Mr.. Chaloner contem-
plates is designed TO bring about ma
tional laws which will not only pro-
tect lunatics, but also give them a
trial by jury before they are COM
mitted to institutions.
Mr.. Chaloner, who was declared
sane by Justice Ford of the supreme
state for % years, declared that alien
lists are a menace to society and the
instruments of the 'lunacy trust" in
obtaining the Incarceration of wealthy
persons so that others may benefit by
their being removed. He said his rec
onciliation with his family was com
plete.
BY the decree of Justice Ford, Mr..
ChaIoner will have full control of his
property here, valued at about $1,000
900. This will give him an income
of $4,000, which he will use Ia his
crusade against the present lunacy
laws.
Campaign Opens November 9.
Mr.. ChaIoner will open his campaign
at Cooper Union on Sunday. Novem-
Der o, when he will deliver a lecture
which will be part of a series that
will continue through the winter. The
title of the series is THE Philosophic
Aspect of Christianity"
when you came back here you
were delighted with New York and
everything in 1t. Has your stay al
tered your first IMPRESSION" he was
asked.
Not in the least" Mr.. Chaloner re-
piled. New York is wonderful and
the people are more polite than any
where / have ever been. / am de-
lighted with the change in the police
men In the 20 years 1 have been away.
They are fine. and always willing to
help strangers In polite way. There
are only two things that 1 found
wrong. The telephone system Is about
the worst in the world and they do
not run enough street cars"
He Issues Statement
Mr.. Chaloner gave out the following
statement TO the newspaper men:
Gentlemen Of the fourth estate, In
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-19

Winchester while on a vacation at
Sontl. Hero. VT, was announced by the
Harvard observatory. 1t was the first
new comet to be discovered this year,
observatory officials said, and the
fourth which Mr.. Metcalf has to his
credit. The new comet is visible
through small telescope in eastern
sky In the early evening. II is NOV
ing rapidly northward. indicating that
1t Is fairly close to the earth.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-19

for his history. Messrs. Lecroix & Co.
of Brussels state that they gave E16.-
600 to Victor Hugo for his Les Mis-
erables." but. as the author was en-
gagged on the work for % years. the
sum was not nearly SO large as it
seemed at first sight. Indeed. the
fS,22S which Sir Walter Scott received
for his novel. Woodstock" was. in
comparison. much larger. for the book
wa written in less than three months
time. For his incompatible decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire" Glib
bon was paid 10000.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-19
ARMCHAIR KNOWN TO ROMANS
Author Shows That Critic Who Had
Questioned the Fact Was With
out Exact Knowledge.

Something of the general erudition
thar is part of the necessary equip
ment of serious authorship when 1T
deals with the historic past comes out
In the letter Of an American author
70 a reviewer who had seemed to
onestion the use Of green leather arIn-
chairs hy Py-.an emperors. 1T Is
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-19

miles distant. There they found the
traveller and his team of horses COM
pletely covered by millions of ants.
The rescue party had arrived In the
nick of time. as the man and his horses
were almost dead and were lying pros
trate on the ground. The ants were
driven away by gasoline fumes. Man
and horses were badly bitten but viii
survive
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-19
Snake Short Circuits Wires.

Ithaca, n Y.-At Haughnock Gorge.
near this city, a snake crawled to the
roof of power house. slipped through
a hole just above the electrical an
paratus. fell across two wires, and
shors circuited them Several villages
were made dark and the snake was
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-19
THE YOUTHFUL MALADY.

"Pax is Latin word meaning peace" re-
marked the erudite visitor. he gazed about TO
knowledge.
IF That's the case" the facetiOus Teller sug-
gested, trying to make his voice heard above the
sound of a piano player. talking machine. four
drums two horns and squeaky floor board. Il
arise to say that there is likely TO be small pax
in this family for time"
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-19
ANTS BURY HAN AND TEAM
Posse Armed With Gasoline Torches
Barely Rescues Traveller In
New Mexico.

Santa Fe, N MA story comes
from Springer. via Ration. that farm
er drove hurriedly into the town TO
summon a posse to rescue traveller
who had been attacked by swarm of
flying ants. Armed with gasoline
torches and spraying pumps several
men rode out of town to spot four
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-19

present control nearly IS per cent OF
the vegetable growing industry Of the
Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys.
In some of the elementary schools OF
Placer county class after class con-
tains but one or two white children.
In many others japanese boys old
enough to shave sit In classes with
the little girls Of tender age. jap
anese school children in Placer county
boast that some day they will have a
japanese governor In California"
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-19
FRESH DISCOVERIES.

'But why" asked the horse-faced party, do
you persist in believing the worst about the Ger
manSY"
81 don't" responded J. Fuller Gloom "Just
when l think I am believing the worst / learn
something still worse about them."-Kansas City
Star.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-19
Authors Recompense.

The distinction of being the person
to receive the highest price paid TO an
author lies with Daudet. who received
100000 for "Sappho." Next to this
enormous sum of money. but far below
1t, comes the 10000 paid to Lamartine
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-19

morocco" for the Moors kept up the
methods of tanning and dyeing as they
found them in Tunis, then Roman At
RIGA, Algiers, then Gaetulia. and in
the old city of Mauretania that after
wacd became Morocco.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-19

EFORE long. congress willing. it
will be possible for enlisted men
and officers of regulars. reserves
and National Guards TO receive
vocational training of a high de-
gree in connection with the mill
tary training which is essential
for the soldiers.
Hereafter, again congress will
ing, the young men who enlist
in the regular army of the Unit
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-19

Burial In dry flour viii keep silver
bright for long time
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-19

New Comet 10 Discovered.
Cambridge. Mass.-Discovery Of
new comet by Rev, Joel n. Metcalf OF
Evening star., 1919-07-27
FOREST FIRES GROW,
OFFICIALS ALARMED
Supply of Labor Being Drained
Montana Defense Council Asks
Aid of Soldiers.

SPOKANE. Wash, July 26.-With
new blazes springing up in western
Montana and northern Idaho, and the
supply of labor rapidly being drained,
the forest fire situation has reached
a stage where it excites alarm on
the part of the federal forest service
night.
the Lolo national forest. three in the
Missoula forest and twelve in the
Clearwater forest. Other fires that
have been burning for weeks also
continue to threaten. 1t was expect
ed the Rattlesnake fire. that has
burned over 5000 acres, would be in
trenched before tomorrow.
Aid of soldiers has been asked by
the Montana state council of de-
fense. High winds have famed the
blaZes to a strength that makes their
control by present forces prob
lematical.
The joining of the Cold creek fire
with the blaze coming down Long
Gulch creek, in the Lolo forest. caused
a fire which spread in three direc-
tions at dangerous pace. though
it was temporarily checked when it
reached the old Black Tail burn.
The Hughes creek fire. in the Bit
ter Root forest. jumped the control
lines several times. The Running
creek fire has cleared the Salmon
mountains and jumped into Montana
and is burning over large area.
Evening star., 1919-07-27
TWO AIRMEN KILLED
IN GREETING FLEET
Lieut.. Ellis and Sergt. Won Bers
in Collision of Army and Navy
Planes Off Colon.

ON BOARD THE u. S. S. NEW
MEXICO. July 26 (by Wireless and
Colon) Lieut.. Ellis and Sergt. Won
Berg were killed today and three per-
sons were injured in a collision be-
tween an Army airplane and a Naval
seaplane at the entrance to the Colon
harbor. The two machines were
wrecked.
Lieut.. Duggan and Machinist
Thomas were severely injured En-
sign Ostin was hurt less seriously.
The collision occurred during an
aerial demonstration given to welcome
the battleships of the Pacific fleet
The Army airplane struck the tail of
Naval hydroairplane. Both ma
chimes fell 200 feet into Limon bay.
Lieut. Albert Ellis, who was in the
Naval machine and was killed. lived
at Paterson, N. ]. Sergt. Emil Won
Berg, who was killed in the Army air
plane, lived at Oakland, Calf. Lieut.
James r. Duggan was the most seri-
ously hurt of the three men injured.
The bodies of Lieut. Ellis and Sergt
Won Berg and the injured men were
taken on board the battleship Missis-
sippi.
Evening star., 1919-07-27
PHONETIC SPELLING
FOR CHINESE LABOR
Included in Educational Pro-
gram for importers Work.
erS in France.

NEW YORK. July 26.-An extensive
educational program, including a
phonetic system of spelling, will soon
be..introduced among the thousands
of Chinese laborers now in France,
according to an announcement today
by Arthur Shih, who sailed to@ay for
France on the liner Royal George. He
was accompanied by five Chinese stu
dents from Yale University and the
Rennsaeler Polytechnic Institute to
initiate the work.
There are now in France, Mr.. Shin
said, 100000 Chinese laborers. Under
arrangements between the French
and Chinese governments this force
viii be augmented by an additional
250, 900 laborers to be used in the re
construction work in the devastated
districts of France. The largest
Chinese newspaper i'll the world is
published in France, he added, Tor the
a weekly publication with circula-
ton of 10000.
Mr.. Shih declared experiments in
the new spelling system have proven
that by use of it Chinese laborers can
learn to spell in a month. One of the
features is a Simplitied method of
writing the intricate characters of
the Chinese alphabet which, it is
hoped, ultimately will be adopted
throughout China.
MI those in the party headed by Mr..
Shih are accredited representatives
of the Chinese ministry of education,
which has general supervision of the
ing out the program eighty-five
chinese y. NJ. c. A. workers are to be
. .1ed 20 the force of teachers sent to
France.
Evening star., 1919-07-27
ITALY LOOKS TO j. S.
FOR LOAN OF BILLION

ROME, July 26 (Havas).-It is re-
made to American bankers for finan-
ciaf aid for Italy to the extent of
$1,000. 100000
ROME, July 26 tby the Associated
Press).-Premier Nitti. speaking before
the senate today, said Italy must raise a
foreign loan of $4,000. ooo, 900 lire for the
purchase OF raw material He pointed
out that the refusal of the United
States to grant new credits to Italy
was not a hostile act, for the United
States had lent Italy during the war
money at a rate of 31a per cent,
whereas the rate paid on loans raised
in italy was 12 per cent.
The United States have accom-
piiShed their task" said the premier
them for an act of friendship and we
must also act in friendly manner
A favorable issue in the difficulties
surrounding Italy's foreign policy is
Ioped for by Premier Nitti.
There is no need to say that be-
cause one of our national aspirations
is unsatisfied we have lost the war
for Italy has won the war, and the
prestige which she has acquired in
the world is worth more than any
riches. We have overthrown a Gen.
tuEy-old empire. In spite of treaties
which we had made. as a result of
witch we ought to have been support
ed in our struggle against the Austro-
Hungarian empire, We were alone in
wiz the war"
The senate then passed resolution
Pressing confidence in the new min
istry-