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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-12-02

which will give six days work; others
nine and half hours a day, with the
intention Of closing down Saturdays
Another will cut its week TO 40 hours,
planning to work eight hours n day for
five days and remaining closed on Sat
urdaV.
Despite the press dispatch from At
lanta that plants burning wood and oil
viii also be restrained from operating
more than As hours a week. Memphis
lumber, veneer. cooperage and other
wood working manufacturers in general
will continue to operate full time until
officially forbidden to do 10. They will
do this upon the assumption that the
ruling which Fuel Director Garfield
made during the war period, will apply
at this time Dr. Garfield then ruled
that the wood working plants should
operate full time, because they not
only produce their own fuel but pro
duce fuel which can be used in heating
dwellings in place of coal.
There is no tendency on the part Of
any of the wood products manufactur-
ers to evade the fuel conserving regula7
tons. but they generally hold that II
would be silly to curtail operations in
the light Of the precedent established
during the war, and the fact that they
would thus reduce the fuel supply
Walker Wexford. Of the Chickasaw
Cooperage company one of the largest
manufacturing concerns In Memphis
| declared that he would be confronted
| with the problem OF buying coal to
| keep his dry kilns going If he should
| clrtail his operating time. His plant
| produces the refuse wood and sawdust
which it consumes and which is neces-
! sary for the drykilns by operating ten
| hours five days a week, and about
eight hours on Saturday.
S. NJ Mickey, Of Mickey Bros, and
| the Green River Lumber company. also
| operates dry kilns at the former plant
| (veneer plant) which must have fuel
"a hours the day. He stated that the
| Mickey Bros. plant normally operates
| 10 hours a day or so hours week and
| he thought it would 'be silly" for them
to reduce their opera tions to 4S hours
until officially notified, that II Is right
| to do so. "Of course, II the govern
ment wants us TO cut our operations
down, we will not hesitate to do So
he said.
The Cole Manufacturing Co, one OF
the largest manufacturers OF wooden
doors, sash, blinds and similar prod
ucts, normally operates only so hours
week and will cut this down to "a
very easily, ]. c. Dean, president OF
the company, said. This company
burns sawdust and wood refuse pro.
duced at its own plant and has wood
left over to sell.
W. A. Ransom, president of the Gay
oso Lumber Co. declared he thought Il
would he the height of folly for his
plant to shut down unless Officially or
dered TO do so, as il not only produced
its own fuel but surplus of 30 to u
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-12-02

Those two words bear a world of Significance to
shoppers at this season, and the suggestions below
are all offered with the gift idea in mind.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-12-02

wagon loads Of wood refuse .., day , TO TO
n fuel producing industry he said
"and so pr Garfield held during the
war"
I p. McSweyn president and man
aEer Of the Memphis Band Mil co.
Declared that he saw no reason why
the lumber mills should not go ahead
and operate full time until ordered to
stop, but that the embargo on the IRIS
CO road, would greatly curtail his oper.
atoms. because his supply OF logs come
in largely over that road.
That the fuel saving order does not
apply to cotton seed oil mills has been
ascertained by j. II. Scruggs, district
manager Of the Buckeye Cotton on
COMPANY in a telegram direct from p
l., Winchen. fuel director at Atlanta
MIR Winchell wired that the cotton Oh
nlsnts could continue to operate with
out out restriction because Of their being
engaged in producing food products,
Mr.. ScrugGs also learned from A.
lanta that Ihe regional railroad admin
istrat.un there is about to ask wash
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-12-02
GERWIG ON TRIAL
ON LIQUOR CHARGE

The trial OF Herbert II. GerwlE on
charges OF violating the Reed amend
ment and violation OF the wartime
prohibition act, was begun In the
United States district court at the az
ternoon session OF the court
GerVlg was formerly clerk for the
Illinois Central railroad, and the gov
ernment charges chat In this capacity
he had whisky billed from Louisville
by way Of Memphis TO CaruIhfrsNlle,
Mo. The government further charges
that Gerwig obtained possession OF uls
whisky while II waa IN NempfnS au"
before heiuG placed on ho'J1 Il u1a ',,
ia, Enr,lthnrs(tlle These acts, when
the government Will endoaVor 70 salAb-
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-12-02
CROOK NOT CROOK

j. T. Crook, negro, Is not crook,
although he was charged with being one.
when Crooks case was called for trial
Tuesday in the Second criminal court,
In which he was charged with highway
robbery. William Hardwick, linotype OPP
orator. the prosecutor failed to appear
against him, and s. o, Bates, state :
attorney. recommended TO the judge and
Jury that not guilty verdict be re
turned The recommendation was sat
isfsctory and Crook was released
The defendant Was tried and convtete,l
Of the crime, but ludgs Harsh eal
ed him . nav trial
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-12-02
TORPEDOED!
Don't blast your Liver and
Bowels, but take
"Cascarets."

You men and women who can't get
feeling right-who have headache, coat
ed tongue. bad taste and foul breath,
dizziness, can't sleep. are bilious, nerv-
GUS and upset, bothered with a sick,
gassy, disordered stomach and colds,
Are you keeping your liver and bowels
clean with Cascarets, or shocking your
insides every wv days with Calomel,
Salts. Oil and violent pills?
Cascarets work while you sleep they
cleanse the stomach remove the sour,
undigested, fermenting food and foul
gases; take the excess bile from the
liver and carry out of the system all the
constipated waste ma ter and poison IN
the bowels. Cascarets never gripe, sick
en- or cause Inconvenience and Casearets
cost SO little, too adv
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-12-02

1 lsh, are declared to be violations OF
the Reed amendment
The government will also endeavor to
| prove that Gerwig sold the whisky in
Memphis, in violation Of the wartime
| prohibition act.
II is expected that the entire after
noon. or the greater part OF it, win be
required TO try this case.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-12-02

iugton to abate the embargo against
cotton seed shipments
Bridge & Iron works, the American
Bag company, the Edgar Morgan com
pany. manufacturers Of stock foods, and
the ChickaPaw Machine G. BOUNDARY
company, have cut their operating
schedules to suit the fuel directors
,VighCs
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-12-02
BEAN GETS POST

WASHINGTON Dec. Cecil y.
Bean. Of Florida. was nominated by
President Wilson today to- he sunervis-
ing inspector o' Tenth district steam
boa! inspection service.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-12-02
Merry Garden Ballroom

open 3 pm, to 1880 pm,
on account Of fuel restrictions these
hours will be observed until further no
tiCe duFt
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-12-02
MEMPHIS PLANTS
EXCEPT WOOD ON
SHORT SCHEDULES
Wood Products Manufacturers
Think Garfield Will Permit
Them to Operate on Wood
as During War.

Memphis industries of the classes
within the province Of the fuel admins
tration order restricting operations
where coal and electrical power and
lights are consumed to 80 hours a week
are now operating on that basis. The
large number of plants affected are
using this operating period variouslN
some operating eight hours day
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-12-02

Cut Glass Flower Baskets,
shown in two sizes; spe-
cial ,.... SOC and $3.50
Mahogany Bureau or Desk
Clocks, fine timekeepers,
for .........,.. $3.50
Ron Bon Trays, latest nov
city, assorted designs,
special ..,......... SO
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-12-02

Hand painted Chocolate
Sets, dainty patterns spe-
clal .....,.,.... $500
Floor Lamps and Silk
Shades, newest designs,
for ..,,...... S23.00
candy Jars, beautiful cut
glass, assorted patterns;
pound size ,......, Sl,30
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-27
AN AMERICAN CREED
[Vioe President Marshal

believe that the American republic instituted by the
fathers constitutes the finest system of government ever or
daned among and affords the machinery for the right
inc of grievances without violence tumu and dis
order.
believe that every inequality which exists in the social
and condition Of the American people traceabe
the successful demands of interested classes for class Leg
ation and believe therefore, that practical equality can
be obtained under form of government by remedial leg
sation in the interest OF the American people and not IN
the interest of any body thereof, large small.
L believe there is justification In government
where officials elected and laws made by the people, for
minority to threaten boodshed and anarchy unless the ma
ority shall submit to the will of the minority.
believe that America belongs to American citizens
tive and naturazed who willing to seek redress for
their grievances in orderly and constitutional and be-
eve that all others should be taught peacefully if can
and forcbly if must, that country is not nterna
tonal boarding house anarchist cafe.
pledge myself to the support of these principles by
voice, by vote and if need be, by fortune and fe
and promise my country train my children in this most
holy faith.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-27
GERMANY MORALLY INsoLvENT.

Herr Rathenau, GeInany's most noted cap
tain of industry when the war broke out, takes
a very gloomy view of the economic future OF
his country. The Germany of twenty years
from now he says, will fill with grief and shame
the citizens who knew it as it was five years
ago. It will be moribund, decayed, gone to
seed, inhabited by a wretched, hopeless peo-
ple, while all around it will flourish old and
Young countries in the strength and splendor
Of a new and exuberent life
What truth there may be in this gloomy pre-
diction no one can certainly say; but II Herr
Isathenau is right, the cause of Germany's de-
cadence will be evident to every open mind
She went morally bankrupt within the two or
three decades just past. Her clergy, her fore
most professors and pubhcists signed mani
festo at the outbreak of the war to the effect
that Germany was an innocent, righteous ma
ton, guiltless Of the war, attacked by malevol-
ent enemies and fighting for her national life.
This deceived nobody outside of the empire,
and the only question it raised was whether
these eminent doctors of divinity, scholars and
scientists, realized that they were RUTHLESS or
had become so de1noralized that they were self
deceived. Whatever the explanation, the
learned cassed still insist on Germanys inno-
cence; for more than seventy professors of
Heidelberg university have just published a
new manifesto proclaiming the righteousness of
their government and the purity Of it's purposes
and aims.
According to dispatches from Berlin the old
order in Germany is little changed except that
the kaiser is in Holland and Ludendorff de-
posed from his dictatorial power The old i'm
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-27
WkY ITALY is AROUSED.

Kansas City Star; There is dis
position to regard 1taly's territorial
claims as another instance OF the
Irecrudescence of 1.-The old, bad order,
and the Italian statesmen making
them as diplomats of the old school
who are unfit for the new regime
that has come in since the war. IL
ia easy to dismiss the subject with
pat generalization. But such dis
missal gets nowhere.
II we try to undertand ltaly's posi-
ton we may not agree with IL, put at
least we shall know that 1t is not
based on blind greed and Imperial
ism.
Nature played hob with Italy. 1t
gave her long, sandy shore on the
Adriatic, with no harbors. Just across
fine narrow sea, only 100 miles away,
| It piled up a rocky coast with harbors
in which all the navies of the world
might lie. A hostile power holding
these harbors has Italy under the
guns. 1t can make a raid on the
coast and then dash for shelter.
italy has lived all the period of its
national existence under the menace
| of Austria. Naturally it is one of
! the prime objects of the men in
charge of Italy's public affairs so to
arrange matters now that this sort
of menace shall be forever ended. So
they speak for the important harbors
/ at the head of the Adriatic, Trieste
| and Fiume, as well as for as much
more of the opposite coast as they
can get. Their desire is to protect
Italy from the possibility of naval
! attack from the east
| Unfortunately on this point the
national aspirations are in conflict.
For Fiume is the natural port and
outlet to part of Jugo-Slavia and to
| the Hungarian plains We aren't
particularly concerned with Hungary
at present But we are bound to pay
attention to our allies, the Jugo-
Slavs To what extent shall we an
| tagonize Italy on their behalf? That
is the question. Shall we tell them
they have plenty of harbors to the
south, and so they must be prepared
/ to sacrifice Fiume? Or what com
promise shall be effected?
The Star doesn't undertake to say.
All that 1t would here call attention
to is that the conflicting claims are
| not due to a greedy disposition or
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-27
REFERENDUMs AND nsTATEsMEN. z

The legislature of Quebec, Canada, appears
to have concluded that it was too hasty IN
adopting prohibition before discovering what
the people desired The province was to have
become dry on May first, next, but the poptl-
lar resentment was so great that referendum
will be taken in April at which the people VIII
decide if the manufacture, sale and use OF CIDER
beer and light wines shall not be permitted
Many referendums will be had in states OF
this country before prohibition by constitution
al amendment goes into effect, if it ever does
The people should have been allowed to pass
upon the question where there was such state
Iprovision, and would have been but for the fact
that party leaders and legislators were playing
politics and willing to put over anything II
they thus might advance their interests or save
their seats.
The fact that representative government
does not fulfill expectations and work as well
in practice as in theory is due to the fact that
inferior, Indispensable men succeed SO general
ly in climbing into positions which should be
reserved, and formerly were, for wise and up
right citizens, men of judgment and moral
worth People sheer at congress and senate
nowadays, and who shall say they are not Justl-
fed in sneering, considering the mental medic
critics of which they are in large part compos
edg But a body which makes the laws for a
hundred million people and spends billions OF
dollars of their money every. year should be
made up of the ablest men in the country
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-27
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Webster City Freeman-Journal Prob
ably Mr. Rathbun is telling the truth
ana possibly he is not. But no matter.
l. Attorney Clark did get $4,000 to puy
the pardon of the governor that is
no evidence that the governor ever
saw any of the money.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: We have
been paving our roads in Iowa with
good intentions for some years and
now we are going to try some brick
and concrete.
Marshalltown Times Republican:
When one considers how many
months it requires for state legis-
lature to mature its bills into actual
enactment it is not so surprising that
the congress of nations at the peace
conference has not finished its job.
Cedar Rapids Republican: 1t must
not be assumed that the governor IS
guilty as charged. That the father in
the case paid the money, in currency,
cannot be doubted He paid 1t and
the lawyer to whom he paid it gave
him to understand that the money
went to pay the governor for Issuing
the pardon which released his boy
from the penitentiary. But did the
lawyer tell the truth?
Atlantic News-Telegraph: We like
wise refuse to get very excited over
anything Havner Introduces against
Harding till we have heard the whole
story.
Des Moines Capital: The Capital
is not going to believe that Governor
Harding was party to any corrup-
ton in the Rathbun pardon case. We
believe the governor made a mis-
take. We also believe that he was
grossly imposed upon by the attorney
for the Rathbuns. If the governor
did not have too much honesty tG
refuse to engage in the sale of par
dons he certainly has too much sense
to do SUCH a thing. Why should the
governor trust George H. Clark, at
torney for the Rathbun family? Why
should he put his entire reputation II
the hands of Clark? The governor Is
lawyer and certainly would know
enough to keep out OF such transac
| ff0ns
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-27
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when
subjects are rebels from principle.-Burke.
!. THE DEVIL rs UNCLAIMED.

The time wasted in the peace conference IN
the discussion of arrangements to avert future
conflicts while failing to end the present war
appears to have borne it's unprecedented fruit.
The Hungarian proletariat has now made COM
mon cause with that of Russia against the en-
tcnte. The anarchists of these countries are IN
control and have declared war to the knife
against dynasties, aristocracies, landowners,
capitalists and bourgeois middle classes, and
have called on the workmen of Germany and
Austria to join them. The devil appears to be
unclaimed in half the terror-ridden continent OF
Europe, and period of appalling disorder may
ensue Has the conference dawdled away the
day of grace in windy confabs over matters
that might have waited, and if so who is to
blame?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-27
THE MOST DANGEROUS
OF ALL DISEASES

No organs OF the human body are 80
important to heaith and long life as the
kidneys. When they slow up and com
mence to lag in their duties, look out
Danger is in sight.
Find out what the trouble is-with-
out delay. Whenever you feel nervous,
weak, dizzy, suffer from sleeplessness,
or have pains in the back, wake up at
once. Your kidneys need help. These are
are not performing their functions
properly. They are only half doing
their work and are allowing impurities
to accumulate and be converted into
uric acid and other poisons, which
are causing you distress and will de-
stroy you unless they are driven from
your system.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-27

Get some GOLD MEDAL Hss,,.m
Oil Capsules at once. They are an old
tried preparation used all over tbs
world for centuries They contain onIv
old-fashioned, soothing oils combined
with strength giving and system-cleans.
ing herbs, well known and used BY pby.
sicians in their daily practice. COIN
MEDAL HARLEM Oil Capsules are i'm.
ported direct from the laboratories in
Holland. They are convenient to take.
and will either give prompt relief or
your money will be refunded. Ask for
them at any drug store. but be sure
to get the original imported GOLD
MEDAL brand. Accept no substitutes
In sealed packages. Three sizes.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-27
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE

MIGRATION.
Out of the north summons;
Out of the north cry;
Above the curving shore line
The wide winged geese go by.
Small rills that sing of rapture
Are seeping from the mold;
Slim withes of marsh willows
Are Frightening into gold.
The quickened sap mounts upward,
In every woodland bole;
In vale and Interest meadows
The sod renews its soul
Burst are the icy letters
That held in bondage strong
All the four winds are shouting
Their messages of song.
Earth stirs in rapt elation,
Old yet forever new,
And in the great migration
am migrant tool
Clinton Scotland, in New York Sun
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-27
RELIEVED
RHEUMATICS
ENTHUSE.
ALL LOUD IN THEIR PRAISE OF
"NEUTRONE PRESCRIPTION 9g'

A working man buying a bottle Of
"Neutrone Prescription SO" was asked
how 1t was helping him.
Helping me-, he replied ''Why,
there is nothing on earth like it. You
don't know how my poor swollen, stiff
joints and muscles panied and burned
/ was nearly crazy with suffering and the
worry of losing so much time and pay.
Before I knew about 'Neutrone Pre-
scription So tried all kinds Of tablets
and liniments, but one bottle OF
'Neutrone Prescription 49, helped me SO
much that am never without 1t now,
All pain and swelling is gone and feel
like doing things.
'Neutrone Prescription es' certainly
must be wonder. the druggist re-
Piled. Eve have never handled any.
thing like 1t, they all say the same,
soc and $1.00 the bottle.
McGratn Bros Drug Co, and leaa
ing druggists everywhere.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-27

Tradition has it that an unsophis-
ticated German saloon keeper at
Hoboken decorated his joint with
orange colors on the 18th OF March.
What happened was aplenty. Last
Monday German celebrated too
much in SChicago. why are you
celebrating today?" inquired the
Judge. Hans could not answer. Then
fell sentence for violating the
sanctity of the day.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-27
He'll Net Resign, Of Course.

Springfield, Mass, Republican:
While the effect of Senator Reeds
address on the league before the
Missouri legislature is demand
from the democratic members of the
house that he resign, it is clear that
they do not know their man if they
expect that he will.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-27
Income Tax Reflections.

st. Paul Pioneer Press: Heavily as
it may hit him, no good citizen OBJ
jects to paying his income tax as
part of his share of the cost of win
ming the war. But as a constant re.
minder of the extravaganza and
waste which ran riot through the ad.
ministration of the government. he
may frame his tax receipt. AS a
souvenir of hasty. incompetent tax
legislation, laying burden heavy
and unequal, it will be Of inestimable
value.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-27

perial personnel is still in Office, and still reign
ing in the Wilhelmstrasse debating foreign pol
icy and hiding or destroying documents com
promising to the old regime 1t is this evidence
that Germany is morally insolvent and beyond
spiritual regeneration in any short period
which makes Herr Rathenau's forebodings SO
impressive as they are
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-27

The problems Of politics soluble by American
pluck, and the heritage which makes us Americans they
will be solved the American way. We will prove thar
preserve every principle of the Declaration
Independence, and of the Constitution OF the Unte
States and free from entanglements
republic states upon the American continent
chauncey M. ,DepeW.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-27

bad character on the part Of either
party They are due to causes rising
out : of a geographical situation.
Their settlement calls for the
broadcast craftsmanship.