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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-16

Dixie umpires are In for anything but
a happy year. With the new legislation
against the spitball, s%hinebail, emery
ball and all freak deliveries in effect.
the handlers Of the indicator In Sunland
are certain to have a season brimful OF
wrangling and rows with pitchers and
field captains.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-16

Dear Sir-Please tell me the positions
Southern league managers used TO play
before they got too old and fat.
The mirror., 1920-01-15

death rate for the United States Of 2.5 per 1000
DR.. Rockwell Of the Equitable Life says: No pro-
blem Of greater Importance than this epidemic has yet
occurred in the annals of life insurance
'The experience of one of the largest fraternal
orders illustrates the effect that this epidemic having
all life insurance organizations 1t has experienced
an average increase in death claims amounting to about
300 per monthly. Its normal death claims were
about ST 100000 per month"; while in November of
1918 the death claims were increased to $2258250,
and in December the death claims amounted to $3,-
41700 and in January of 1919 to 1926 900, max
ing an excess over the normal during the four
months of $4,280,000. Such an experience is enough
to alarm only the society affected, but the facts
are so startling that all insurance organizations are
deeply interested in whatever will prevent
the spread of this terrible disease Actuares estimate
that influenza and pneumonia have caused increase
in the liabilities of insurance organizations of this
country, up to December IS, 1918 of $100,000000."
Selected.
The mirror., 1920-01-15
Man, Just Man

A real man is who is always busy. He is al
ways identified by the way he deals with the people he
meets. He is courteous to everyone. He is cons-
derate. If he is the father of family he will teach
his children to be courteous to every He is true
When he makes promise he makes it good. He does
not want you to think of him as an aristocrat He
knows that there is no such thing as an aristocrat
except in the heart. The real aristocrat has heart
The who insists on having other people think he
is aristocrat would not know the meaning of the
word heart To say man has no heart is the last
word of condemnation.
The real man is not hypocrite. He is exactly
what he seems to be-a straightforward candid, hon
orable, plain, courteous gentleman. He is always
right, hence he look the world straight in the eye
He has nothing concealed he is not afraid He will
say yes or He is the right side of everything
and every question, he understands the right He
makes mistakes but he always ready to acknowledge
his and correct them. He always teachable
He is glad to learn from the humbles source as we'll
the highest. He is reverent. The Bible is the
Word of God to him, he will square his life by its
teachings. He may not be churchman, but he will
never be heard reviling the church.-Masonic Home
Journal.
The mirror., 1920-01-15
Trade of United States With Mexico

Trade between the United States and Mexico
consists chiefly of exchange of manufactures pro-
duced in the United States for manufacturing material
produced in Mexico. Curiously too, this trade has
continued to increase during the full period Of tur-
MOL through which Mexico has passed in recent years.
Our trade with Mexico, says statement by the Ma
tional City Bank of New York. aggregated in the
fiscal year 1919 $277 100000 against $131 100000
in 1914, and $117 100000 in 1910. The exports alone
from the United States to Mexico in 1919, $119OOO,
600, against $390OOO0O in 1914, while the imports
from that country were $15S,OOO,OOO against $685.
OOO,OO0 in 1914. The United States has supplied in
recent years than threefourths of the imports
of Mexico, and taken probably four-ffths of her ex
ports, this estimate being based upon the latest avail
able official figures of the Mexican government
coupled with certain known official figures have not
yet been issued.-National City Bank Bulletin.
The mirror., 1920-01-15
Might of Men

When ship like the Titanic strikes an iceberg
we are reminded of the impotence of man pitted
against the might of And this is good for us
But there is another side the picture. In 1900
mighty hurricane almost destroyed Galveston, Texas
taking toll of 5000 lives The city neither gave up
trying to be city disregarded the warning. 1t
went to work and built seawall five miles long, The
other day hurricane that of two decades
ago swept the region. For time there was two or
three feet of of Gavestons streets and
that was all. The mind of man and the work of man
had averted the power of nature do HARM Of such
exploits is race capable, says Milwaukee Journal
For five years we have dwet only on its power to
work devastation, the millions of lives and mighty
sums devoted to destruction We turn our thoughts
to what do and find this great thing that Gal
weston accomplished with little $2,000,OO0-a city
saved at the cost of less than hour of war to the
nation. Shall we choose mans destruction or his abil
ity to build up the standard of the future?-
Exchange.
The mirror., 1920-01-15
Our Colleges

What will be the effect of the war on our colleges
question that yet be fully answered. but it
matter of profound Importance. The registration
in the higher institutions of learning in the United
States is almost four hundred thousand. 1t is mere
justice to the students to that they have studied
understood and been impressed by the mighty events
of the last few years. Mutudes of them volunteered
for service All through their lives their experience
in the war, the opinions they have formed and the
hold they have got on public affairs will make them
prominent in the communities where they to live
But it is not of the effect of the war on the young
in college that wish to speak. The in
stitutions themselves will be made over if they have
not already been made The early colleges
chiefly fitting schools for the learned professions. The
course of study was mostly classical No doubt it
narrow but it was adapted to its purpose. When CONF
and manufacturing got ahead of agriculture,
change had to come The colleges adapted themselves
to the order and for many years students
have been fitting themselves for positions in business
science than for medicine, law or the ministry
Another change now seems inevitable. In some
way there must be partial return to the original mis-
sion of the college. The country needs greatly
larged body of men of the broadest culture who shall
become leaders in the learned professions and in public
service. lncy SnOuQ De Dcttcr nlgncr
aims, farseeing, than the of any former time.
The country looks to the colleges the only source
that can provide such men.
There signs that the colleges see the duty and
going accept it. New especially designed
train for public service appear in the lists The
college that does offer instruction in international
law will be no better than third Journalism,
and the historical economic and social education es-
sential to competent journalism, will have much
greater attention incidentally, since the has
taught that there is reasonable between
miltarism and unpreparedness, the young will
have their bodies trained and their minds broadened
by military drill and SCIENCE and the country will be
assured of safety against attack from without
The colleges have been the moral security of the
naon the hope of its cvzationthe recruiting ground
for its public service Let us hope that they will be in
the future all that they have been in the past
Exchange
The mirror., 1920-01-15
What the Flu" Did

The following paragraphs are taken from re-
cent article, entitled, "The Conservation of Health
is Vital" by Mr. c. E. Lovett of the Modern Samar-
itans:
Life insurance rates are based upon normal
death rate, and it is only when Spanish influenza
makes its appearance and extraordinary NOR
taty that the insurance companies and fraternal So
ciees become alarmed and find it absolutely necessary
to themselves the utmost to check the spread
of this great scourge and endeavor to find some pre-
ventive
1T has been estimated by, an expert of the Lon
don Times that during the three months from Septem
Der | to December |, 1918 there were 100000
deaths from this terrible pandemic. DR.. Frederick
L. Hoffman estimates that during 1918 the mortality
from influenza and pneumonia in this country
amounted to 100000. This made an increase in the
The mirror., 1920-01-15
Back Tracking Civilization

One by one the continents are being linked, the
oceans are spanned and space is annihilated by the
aeroplane. Read and Brown bridged the Atlantic
through the air and now Captain Ross Smith has flown
from England Autralia, distance of II 500 miles.
Captain Smith crossed dozen or more countries
and the continents of Europe and Asia to reach his
goal and claim prize of $4,000 offered by the Aus
tralian government. His flight of nearly halfway
around the earth carried him above the ancient lands
which for centuries Graded the human race. He flew
over Egypt where 5000 years before the birth of
Christ 100000 sweating slaves toiled 20 years to
build the Great Pyramid of Gzeh Flying back along
the track of civilization he passed desert
where Babylon once teemed with life under Hammur
ap where Sennacherio plundered where the Assyrans
raised their vast palaces and imposing towers along
the Tgrs; where Nebuchadnezzar looked down
the splendors of his Chaldean kingdom from his lux
urious Hanging Gardens. He passed over forgotten
battlefelds where Cyrus defeated young Belshazzar
and where the fate of Troy sealed AS he pressed
farther and farther toward the ancient he might,
had his eyes been keen the eagles have watched
savages and wild beasts roaming among the ruins of
temples and cities built in India by of civilization
that thrived boomed and decayed before the Romans
under Caesar visited his Albion.
Captain Smiths exploit is a mighty personal
triumph, but it is wonderful expression of
the point to which the race has developed Given the
machine and the flying experience there thousands
who could duplicate his feat Within the next few
years. perhaps within few months, brave in
staunch aeroplanes will circle this old earth riding
lightly upon the wing of the morning Archimedes,
after working out the theory of levers declared that
given fulcrum he could move the earth by application
of his principle This wise old Greek who discovered
laws of mechanics which are applied in every man.
made machine used today would be astonished could
he know that man had discovered means of lifting
weight of several tons into the air and directing the
movement of this mass independent of any contact
with terra frma.
fulcrum such as Archimedes could not con-
ceive mighty fulcrum by the of which the human
race can move itself to heights of knowledge and
progress and achievement, is at hand. 1t is the
aeroplane.-Exchange.
The mirror., 1920-01-15
-. C. M Nj e II T S -.
Thrift

What is thrift? Should we practice it? Many
readers will be astonished to learn that there is
troversy the proper answer to both questions.
The dictionaries do not help much Thrift means
many things and has many interpretations that
it is hard to determine which meaning applies par
ticular case. Frugality and economy, and pru-
dence in the management of property, in
acquiring property all under the head of thrift
find ourselves confronted by contradictory views
of what meaning fits If thrift means
frugality Americans not thrifty but if it
success in acquiring wealth, we are.
The Treasury Department has issued leaflet,
entitled Thrift as an American Ideal that tells us
what saving does for man, for the community and
for the whole country. The implication is, of course,
that thrift is simply saving that and nothing else.
Some men who do not accept the governments
implied definition, and who do not regard excessive
and undiscrimnating saving wise have raised the
controversy regarding the second of the questions
They maintain that businesss general prosperity,
tonal growth in wealth and the personal comfort of
the people are best promoted by scale of
expenditure governed by the and the needs of
each person.
1t is not necessary to enter the controversy. All
need to keep in mind is that the government does
ask us to save to the pontof meanness deny
ourselves reasonable personal comfort. 1t urges
merely to avoid waste and needless expenditures.
The more we act on that principle the better it
will be for ourselves and for the country. We have
what saving do when it is forced upon
Because limited ourselves in use of sugar and
other things that we wanted and because we saved
wheat by mixing substitutes with what we had we
able support allies who would surely have
lost the if we had not fed them.
The continued high price of food, fuel clothing
and other necessares will be blessing rather than
calamity if it induces to practice economy;
that is to and to sparngly what is useful:
not to pinch and starve ourselves to 60 clad in
hreadbare garments but in all things avoid extra
vagance and waste. What is economy and thrift for
man may be extravaganza for another, but it is
extravaganza for anyone throw away clothing and
other articles that still useful or to allow what
be made into good and appetizng food to 60 to
the garbage pail.
The of true thrift is no aUaste; about that
side of it there is no chance for controversy-Youhs
Companion.
The mirror., 1920-01-15
o u e II e S
NOTICE TO INMATES

NOTICE TO INMATES
For the benefit of inmates who appreciate
opportunity that their hours
ucaton through good
ture acquiring education Night Schools
helpful connection with their work various
departments will herewith be privileged the Query
amn are welcome to send queries Of serious interest
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Der to all queries submitted for publication Inmates Names
of will be published, only the initials of each
querist being used.-Editor
The mirror., 1920-01-15
Yet the breach between Mexico and the United

Yet the breach between Mexico and the United
States constantly widens. We complain against Mex
leans to their government and that government replies
with sneers scarcely yelled. Our state department
leans backward in the attempt promote and main
tain friendlness the border, and the Mexican
statesmen proceed deliberately cultivate intimate
relations with Germans we have but late called enc
miles, largely-t superfcially-to show spite to-
ward America.
A fellow courtryman who long has had occasion
to travel in Mexico supplies with explanations. The
group associated with Daz consisted of active ntelli-
gent expoiters altogether unscrupulous passonatey
determined to get rich in hurry. 1t granted great
concessions foreigners bulded industries hastily and
overcapitalzed heavily borrowed all the tricks of high
finance. There existed at the time another group
landed proprietor enormously rich but not given to
spending, enamored of state wherein they held the
fate of thousands of Ignorant povertystrcken poems
in virtual servitude.
Americans who developed mines and oil fields and
agricultural tracts in Mexico paid wage above the
prevailing wage scale of the country and provided the
poems opportunities to break with their servitude The
Daz group did 1t was contented to get the
money and gave not thought to the social upheaval
the Americans unconscously were bringing about.
Whatever opposition then apparent was the part of
the lords of the soil.
Madero was true patriot in that his heart went
out to the hafstarved poems. In his the Diaz
group the landed propretors found it convenient to
join. But once that Diaz and his group were de-
stroyed they work parayze the endeavors of
Madero and, though they had no hand in his murder,
they found in that nothing to AS
they in control of the government, they set
themselves the task of restoring the old patrarcha
state to its last detail.
AS compared with Diaz Carranza is simply a
conservative of another color. AS compared with Ma
dero he is reactonary of reactonares. He is intent
fastening the poems their ancient dependence
the land owner, and so makes such war as he
Americans who give the poems chance acquire
liberty and higher standard of living. He
ages the Germans who bend the landed proprietors
and painstakingly avoids disturbing the wage scale,
the padrone system, the allegiance to the gentry"
Americans got along with the Diaz crowd be-
cause the road to riches for that group in the
swift development of natural resources. They could
have been happy terms with Madero because they
had he had, dstaste for serfage They are never
likely to be encouraged tolerated by Carranza be-
cause he has committed all his energies the preser
vation of the special privileges of his classprMeges
which the mere presence of Americans threatens
Toledo Blade.
The mirror., 1920-01-15
Why Carranza Hates Us

As neghbors Mexico and the United States
should be the closest friends AS republics the bond
between them should be strong. Mexico has lived by
reason of the trade we have developed with her and
we have thrved on Mexican commerce There is no
impossible barrier of language conflict of religion
The mirror., 1920-01-15

O:-Please of the best health in this
and other What kind of climate is best for that
is inclined to be tubercuar?-W. S.
A-There best health resorts, best eli
for tubercuar persons The majority people have
period during their life harbored tubercuar germs and
the method of living thinking and eating have determined
the results There of the disease in the
rural districts than in large cities and the so-caed u
bercuar hospitals but places learn their patients how
live and what The climate of Minnesota is equal
the continent except for the cost of clothing
during its winters
Q-What was the principal clause in the resolution in
roduced in the Senate by Senator Foote of Connecticut
the 2h of December 1922 that caused much debate be-
the Massachusetts, and South Carolina senator7-
c. S. E.
A-Senator Foote of Connecticut in December, 1929,
moved that the committee Public Lands be instructed
inquire expediency of doing things aboishng
the Office of Surveyor General and limiting the sale of public
lands.
This resolution was constructed by Senator
be an attempt stop emigration the Mississippi valley
and the West The debate then drfted to the whole
ton of the future policy of the government public
lands and the chief speaker this topic Robert Young
Hayne of South Carolina, great advocate of the doctrine
of State Rights On the day following the addresses of Ben
ton and Hayne Daniel Webster of Massachusetts replied
Hayne-gnoring Benton-and made great defense of the
against the West and uphodng the constitutional doc
trne of the Union which Webster deeply devoted
opposed any sectional divisions of the nation into East and
West The debates extended several days and
suit Webster recognized the first defender and
expounder of Constitution and advocate of the Union,
while Haynes fame became connected with the doctrine of
States Rights
MacMasters History of the American people, volume
6. mot in the Prison Library.
o:-what material is used for making Panama hats7
-P. N.
A-Unexpanded leaves of semless screw pine, native
of Central America and Columbia Soft parts of leaves
are first and fiber then soaked in water make
it pliabe Weaving is done largely under water
The mirror., 1920-01-15

NoTICE-An using the Query Column and desiring
more detailed queries invited the
books in library to be had The
technical subjects Consult the Reference Useful Arts
Chemistry Biography and Science divisions OF
library catalogue for diversified subjects.
The mirror., 1920-01-15
UNANSWERED QUERIES

publish and solutions the follow
in the
time ali desiring invited do
O:-Pease give me the date of the death of Admiral
George Dewey; also the cause and bural-M. T.
The mirror., 1920-01-15

Q=Who and operates the Weland Cana9 Is
there tax vessels going through?-H. P.
A-(a) Canada. (b) Yes.
The mirror., 1920-01-15

CHURCH NOTICE
Services Prison Chapel o'clock Sunday
Sunday
Rev. and Rev. FIR. Corcoran, Chaplains.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-05-19
EXPRESS AGENT
HELPS ROBBERY
Admits Fake Wound in Spo-
kane Station Theft

SPOKANE. May ie-Admitting
that he allowed himself 60 be
"bcancd" to give verisimilitudo 90 a
robbery story. Henry A. Peterson.
Great Northern Express agent. Is
under arrest here charged with com
pllcity In the robbery OF the express
office last Friday night. The amount
stolen exceeded $4,000,
A. II. McGirt, cook. who did the
"heaning." and George II. Cole, who
fs accused OF receiving most OF the
money. also arc in Jail.
Seven thousand dollars have been
recovered Peterson received hut
S2e for his part In the affair. accord
ing to his story.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-05-19
ny GEORGE y. MILLS.
Olympia, Wash.

In my. treatment OF this subject |
hope 20 reveal more truth, tho along
a somewhat different line than
have yet seen presented in the col
umns Of Tho star by others who
have written on this all important
question.
hope 20 impress more emphatic
ally on the mind OF the American
reader the certain disastrous consc'
auences OF future Oriental immigra.
ton. and why our present policies as
regards certain AHlatics should hc
forever abandoned.
shall also advance other theories,
which II they ever become a fact.
would greatly augment the impend
ing danger OF the present situation.
II Japan had made changes In her
religion and social customs compar.
able 10 the advancement in sciences
and material things In the past so
years. then indeed IL could be said
that she had progressed according to
the Western ideas OF progression.
Assimilation OF Japanese with tho
white races would then present
ss~..ser ,.asalhlfff{ea
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-05-19
The Japanese Inuasion
AND
'Shinto, the Way of the Gods

Editors Note-Much has been said and ioren in refer
10 the japanese inuasion Of America However George
~ Nils presents the case n light. He describes
Shnoism, the corshp by japanese Of their deceased an
cestors aud he drdws from their fatdstc attitude the
viction that they essentially the product Of different
civilization than He concludes that IN competing Nth
they hare the advantage Of tno class effort against
ndrlddSm, and that any epent, they must remain
Oriental ia inspiration and action that they cannot be Amer
cani-ed.
The first instainent Of Mr.. Mills article fouoics: