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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1920-12-03
P. O. INSPECTORS END CHASE
Capture Keith Collins, Accused in Bio
Mail Car Robbery at Council
Bluffs, Iowa.

Kansas City. Mo-, Nov. 30.-The ar
rest of Keith Collins at the home of an
uncle near Westville. Okla. in connec-
ton with the Council Bluffs mail rob-
berry ends a chase that has extended
across several states, according to a
statement by Joseph P. Johnson, in
charge of postal inspectors in the
Kansas City district The arrest, In
spectOr Johnson said, was due largely
to the untiring efforts of the men who
took Collins into custody. Johnson
said he had received word from the
arresting officers that Collins had ad-
mitted to them that he was implicated
in the robbery. Inspector Johnson said
his men had traced Collins to his un-
cle's farm late last week and that they
left here for WestviIle. A guide con-
Quoted them to the farmhouse where
Collins was staying and the arrest
followed.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1920-12-03
GIVE UP 500 JOBS TO OTHERS
Golden Rule" Employees Vote to
Surrender Positions for Month to
Unemployed.

Cincinnati, Dec. 1.-The 500 en-
ployees of the Nash Clothing Manufac-
turing company in this city, which is
operated on the golden rule" basis,
at meeting decided to surrender vol
unfairly their positions for a month,
either January or February, in order
to give work to the unemployed of
other clothing factories
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1920-12-03
WILSON To ACT IN
ARMENIA TROUBLE
Aqrees to Use Good Offices to
End HCStilitieS.
NO AUTHORITY TO USE FORCE
President Accepts League of Nations
invitation to Mediate in In1broglio
Will Name Representative
to Work for Peace.

Washington Dec. president Will
son has accepted the invitation of the
League of Nations to act as mediator
in the Armenian situation.
The Presidents acceptance is cOnd1-
toned upon the use of moral influ-
ence. He explains that he is without
authority to employ force without the
consent OF congress.
In accepting the invitation to medi-
ate to end the hOStilities now direct
ed against the Armenian people, Pres
ident Wilson wrote President Hymans
Of the league assembly that he did so
on assurances of ''the moral and dip
iOmatic support of the principal pow
ers," and relying on the league council
to suggest to him the avenue through
which his prOffer should be made
He added that he was without pow
er to use the military forces of the
United States to enforce mediation,
any material contribution depending
upon congress, which," he says. lis
not now in session and whose action
could not forecast"
Text of the Letter.
President Wilson's letter to NJ. Hy-
mans follows:
81 have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your cabled message
setting forth the resolution adopted
by the assembly of the League of Ma
tons, requesting the council of the
league to arrive at an understanding
with the governments with the view
to intruSting power with the task
of taking the necessary measures TO
stop the hOstilitieS in Armenia.
"YOu offered to the United States
the opportunity of undertaking the
humanitarian task of using it's good
offices to end the present tragedy be-
ing enacted in Armenia, and you as
sure me that your proposal involves
no repetition of the invitation to ac-
cept mandate Tor Armenia.
'While the invitation to accept the
mandate for Armenia has been reject
ed by the senate of the United States
this country has repeatedly declared
it's solicitude for the fate and welfare
of the Armenian people in a manner
and to an extent that justifies you in
saying that the fate of Armenia has
always been of special interest to the
American people.
Has No Authorization.
II am without authorization to Of
fer or employ the military forces of
the United States in any project for
the relief of Armenia, and any mate
rial contribution would require the
authorization of the congress which is
not now in session and whose action
I could not forecast. | am willing,
however, upon assurances of the moral
and diplomatic support of the princi-
pal powers, and in a spirit of SYM
pathetic response to the request of the
council of the League of Nations, to
use my good offices and to prOffer my
personal mediation TO a representative
whom I may designate, to end the hos
tilitfes that are now being waged
against the Armenian people and to
bring peace and accord to the contend
ing parties, relying upon the council
of the League of Nations to suggest
to me the avenues through which my
proffer should be conveyed and the
parties to whom it should be adj
dressed. WOODROW WILSON,"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1920-12-03
EXONERATED IN HAITIAN QUIZ
Former Member of United States Ma
rine Corps Not Guilty OF Shoot
ing Islanders.

Los Angeles, Cal, Nov. 29.-Free-
man Lang, formerly a member of the
United States marine corps and re-
Gently a subject of an official inquiry
at Port Au Prince, Haiti, where he
vas charged with having shot Hal
:ians when in the service, has been
rNonerated. according to a cablegram
from him received by his mother
Mrs. Gerf'a'ts -. Eis1 az San Marino.
rPa, he.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1920-12-03
AWAIT MEMORIAL AT YPRES
Belgian Government Won't Chance
Ruins of Cloth Hall Until
British Act

London, Nov. 30.-The Belgian gov
eminent has agreed to leave the ia
nous Cloth han, the cathedral and the
ramparts of Ypres in their existing
state until the British government de-
cides what Kind of memorial to erect
to the troops who fought there. This
fact mas been announced by Premier
How'd fs.,arsre
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1920-12-03

1t brings your New Edison for
Christmas without squeezing your
pocketbook. Remember, too, that,
in buying a New Edison now, you
are virtually buying a before-the-
war-value with an after the-war-
dollar. The price of the New
Edison has increased less than 1870
since 1914, and a portion of this
increase is war tax. Edison stood
the gaff' to keep his favorite in
vention within the reach of every
one who loves beautiful music.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1920-12-03


IN only made RE-CREArloNs for
the New, Edison. He has also made
recordings for one of the standard
talking-machines.
We are glad to announce that
these talking machine recordings
may now be heard. We want you
to hear fhem-and compared De
termine for yourself which gives
you the real RachmaniaoH.
Let us play Rachmaninoffs
Edison RE CREATIONS for you.
Mark how clear, how true the
piano tone. See how every note
in his runs, every accent in his in
depreciation, every shade in his
pedalling is perfectly RE-CREArED.
This was proved by test made
at Mr.. Rachmaninoffs home in
New York City. He played the
Second Hungarian Rhapsodie
(Liszt) in direct comparison with
the RECREATION of his perform
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-10-08


The greatest personal victory yet
won in this Democratic convention was
scored by a young Filipino by the name
Of Jose p. Melencio. He has charge OF
the Philippine Publicity Bureau at
Washington.
He is only twenty-six years old and
received his education in the public
schools of the Philipplnes-under
American teachers, as he proudly
boasted-and at Georgetown, u. Z.
He is a remarkably promising young
man.
Speaking with grace, using the best
language and without a trace of en-
barrassment, he presented the claim
of the Filipinos to independence. The
audience was astonished at the
strength of his argument, the skill
with which he marshaled his facts and
the high tone of his speech. He capti-
waited everyone and committeeman and
visitors paid him the compliment OF
rising and cheering when he concluded
his plea.
When one of the committee asked
him some questions he returned to the
platform and answered them with as
much logic and precision as if he had
taken weeks to prepare his answer. 1t
was a remarkable triumph.
As one who began twenty-five years
ago to fight for the promise of indie
pendence l was proud of this inustra-
ton of what the Filipino is capable.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-10-08

A special delegation Of Filipinos, Of
fcially representing the Filipino peo-
PIE, attended the Republican and Dem
ocratic National conventions. seeking
IN Endorsement of the Filipino desire
for independence in the two platforms.
Their arguments, briefly stated, were
IS follows:
First.-That the American Declara-
ton Of Independence declares that
governments derive their just powers
from the consent of the governed;
Second.-That the American Con-
gress, in the Jones law, solemnly prom
tsed the Filipinos independence upon
the establishment of a stable govern
ment, and that their claim that the
said stable government is now in ex-
istence in the islands has been Official
ly confirmed by Americas own repre-
s~entatives there and
Third.-That America went before
the world in the recent war as the
avowed champion Of self determine
tion," American soldiers having been
told It was one Of the things tr.s
were fighting and dying for.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-10-08
Relations With Japan Becoming
Badly Strained Though There
Is No Danger of War.
TOKYO LEARNS U. S. STAND
Disclosures of Crookedness in Organ
lied Baseball Arouse Indignation
and Grief-Poles and Baron
Wrangel Still Driving the
Reds-MoscoW Eager
for Peace.
BY EDWARD W.. PIcKARD.

Despite the ~undoubted fact that the
governments of the United States and
Japan are earnestly striving to arrive
at an amieable settlement of their diff
f~erences, the relations between the two
nations are becoming more strained
daily. This does not mean that hos
tilities will ensue-such an eventual
ity is almost out of the question-but
the situation is giving undesirable op-
portunity to the alarmists and the
JingoeS of both countries and is real
ly worrying the statesmen and those
directly interested in international
commerce.
The administration at Washington
has sent to Tokyo a communication
stating just how far it is willing to
go to meet the desires of the Japan
ese, and this proposition was taken
cabinet. AT neither capital was any
information given out as to the con
tents of the American note, but it was
reported in Washington that one OF
the fundamental considerations insist
ed upon by the administration is that
Japan shall give a new guarantee
against immigration, in the form of
an amendment either to the existing
treaty or to the '~'gentlemen's agree
ment" under which since 1907 Japan
has undertaken to prevent the emigra-
ton of laborers to America.
If Japan agreed to accept any such
amendment, it probably would be to
the gentlemen's agreement, for the
japanese people would scarcely stand
for a formal treaty by which they, al
most alone, would be set apart as I'M
desirable immigrants into America.
If Japan cannot bring about q definite
settlement of the trouble at this time,
she desires at least to reach IN I'M
Outstanding that will quiet the talk
of japanese domination in California
and induce the people of that state to
reject, at the coming election, the pro-
posed new alien land law which is the
aus Of most of Japan's protests.
The adoption of that law was pre-
vented last year by the administration,
but whether this could be done again
is problematical.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-10-08

ing four nations may have been pre-
mature or over-enthusiastic. Lithu-
ania and Poland, which were actually
fighting, have not ceased yet, though
they probably will before long. AS
for the dispute between Sweden and
Finland over the Aland islands, the
former nation protests that there new
er was any danger of hostilities, as
she always settles international dis
putes ~peaceably. Swedish officials
said the quarrel with Finland would
be amicably ended, though they added
that Sweden never would give up the
Aland islands.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-10-08

The Filipinos declare they have no
grudge or grievance against the Amer
lean people. Their appeal is accom-
panied by a message Of friendship and
gratitude for all that America has done
for them. They point out that Uncle
Sam gave independence to Cuba, and
they hope that they, too, will receive
that boon without which, they declare,
no civilized and patriotic people can
enjoy the maximum of happiness and
self-respect.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-10-08

We have thought in America that
the japanese people were considera-
bly, wrought up over this question, but
according to Marquis Okuma, former
premier. they are not sufficiently
aroused. 1t is now announced in
Tokyo that Okuma is going to devote
himself to awakening the japanese
people against 1.-THE unlawful attitude
of California Americans" and that
he will call a meeting of 100 leading
statesmen and other prominent citi-
zen to exchange views on the subject.
The marquis says his fellow country
men are becoming weak and coward
". like the Chinese, are Indifferent to
grave questions affecting the nations
interests. and that a strong, unified
national opinion must defend the in
terests of the Japanese in California.
He predicts that unless something is
done 70 check the Californians. there
will arise a similar state of affairs in
Canada, Australia, New Zealand and
other British dominions.
That the Japanese already are re-
taliating in such ways as are open to
them is indicated by correspondence
between Secretary of Commerce Al
exander and Chairman Benson of the
shipping board. Mr.. Benson called TO
the attention of Mr.. Alexander in
stances of japanese procedure at
Kobe amounting 10 discrimination
Far East. In reply Secretary Alexan.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-10-08

Seventy per cen Of the inhabitants
Of the Philippines over ten years Of
age, according to a census just COM
pleted, are literate. This is a higher
percentage of literacy than that of any
South American country, higher than
that Of Spain and higher than that Of
any of the new republics of Europe
whose independence is being guaran-
teed by the Allies.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-10-08

The Filipino people r unanimous
in their desire for Independence.
Whenever they are called upon to de-
posit their ballots they have always
ratified this aspiration. At every ses-
sion before adjournment their repre-
sentatives in the Legislature reiterate
their faith in the principles of liberty
and the Independence of the Filipino
people.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-10-08

English is taught exclusively in the
Philippine public schools. Two mil
lion natives now speak English fluent
ly, and there are 100000 English
speaking children in the public schools.
1t is destined to be the national Ian
gUage.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-10-08
VIM, ], BRYAN
SAYS FILIPINO
WON The HONORS

On a signed, copyrighted article WIFI
ten from the Democratic convention nan
st San Francisco for the
News Service, William ]. Bryan PAID tne
following remarkable tribute to Jose 7.
NaIenci9. the young Filipino who is IN
charge Of the Philippine Independence
Publicity campaign in the United States')
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-10-08

There are only 6,6S4 Japanese in the
Philippines. There are about 100000
Japanese in California alone, or 10
times as many as in the entire Philip
pine archipelago.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-10-08

They have been Christians for 300
years and have a culture and refine
ment that will compare very f%avorably
with that of other nations.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-10-08

der wrote: 1.-The nature of the dis
elimination is in almost every case so
subtle, Notwithstanding its effective
ness. that it is almost impossible to
take formal action. The best solution
of the matter seems to be direct trans
portation of American goods in Amer
ican ships wherever possible"
The proposed California law, it is
held by its proponents, would deny to
the japanese in this country no rights
or privileges not denied to Americans
in Japan by japanese law. 1t may be
as well to give here the following sum-
mary of the chief features of the pro-
posed law. 1t says:
That aliens, ineligible to citizen
ship in the United States, companies,
corporations and associations, the ma
jority of whose stock is owned by such
aliens, are authorized to W and con-
vey land only as provided by treaty
and not otherwise.
That such persons, companies, cor
porations and associations shall not
be appointed guardians for estates
consisting wholly or in part of realty,
but that the public administrator or
other competent person" shall act for
the minor heirs of such estates.
That ownership or leases, acquired
in violation of the law, shall become
and remain the property of the state
of California.
That evasions of the law governing
conveyance of property shall be pun
ishable by fine, not exceeding $1,000
nor more than two years in Jail or
both.
Governor Stephens says of it: "The
bill does not and will not, be-
cause the state legally cannot, prevent
japanese control of u soil nor can it
stop further immigration. The full
solution of this question canno be had
short of an exclusion act passed by
congress-"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-10-08

There has been no cessation of the
guerrilla warfare in Ireland. Nearly
every day n or more members of
the British police or army are muir
dered by Sim Feiners, and in almost
every instance reprisal is swift and
bloody. Towns and villages are raid
ed and the homes of well-known Sim
Feiners are burned, and often they
are taken out ans shot to death. The
British government, though it has
started an inquiry into the killings,
seems rather helpless in the matter
Mayor MacSwiney of Cork is still alive.
and a London paper says it has
learned he is being given food in con-
centrated form.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-10-08
SOME FACTS
ABOUT The
PHILIPPINES
The University of Santo Tomas is
25 years older than Harvard.

The Filipino people number 10,350,-
$40, of which 9,495,272 are Christians
and only 9 per cent non-Christians.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-10-08

Both the Poles and General Wrangel
continued their successful warfare on
the Russian soviet forces. The for
mer at last reports had captured the
important cities of Ida and Pinsk,
and were steadily advancing north
eastward toward Wilma, whose fall was
expected soon. Ida is the place
where Trotzky was said recently to
have established the headquarters of
a new Bolshevik army of 10000 for a
fall campaign against the Poles. The
Ukrainians, who are operating on that
front, have recovered Kamanetz-Po-
dolsk from the Bolsheviki and are
said to be planning a drive to form
a junction with Wrangel's forces and
TO sever the soviet line of communi-
cation between Kiev and Odessa.
Wrangel, who is now we'll to the north
of Alexandroysk, is being aided by
Maxine, the independent Ukrainian
leader. and is taking large numbers of
prisoners.
The soviet government has had more
than enough war with Poland, and at
the Riga conference IS seemingly max
ing every effort to arrange an armis-
tice that shall lead to peace. Accord
ing to a dispatch from Warsaw, Adolph
Joffe. head of the Russian delega-
ton, received instructions from Mos
COW to accept all the conditions laid
down by Poland. however hard they
may be, except those compelling Rus
STA to partly or wholly disband her
Red army. SO far the chief matter in
dispute has been the line of demarca-
ton between Poland, White Russia
and Ukrainia.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-10-08

Hot indignation and genuine grief
have been aroused all over the land
by the revelations of crookedness in or
ganized baseball in the grand jury in
v~estigation in Chicago. That here and
there might be found one or two
players who would sell out would not
be surprising, but that eight members
on one club should be guilty of such
shameful if not criminal conduct
would be unbelievable were it not at
tested by the confessions of some of
the accused. These men not only sold
their honor and the respect and admi-
ration of the American people, but
they sold out for petty sums and to
cheap gamblers, who "double-crossed"
them, and now they have nothing left
but bitter reflections and the rem
nants of their brides.
The grand jury voted true bills
against eight men, seven of whom are
still members of the Chicago White
Sox club, the eighth having been sus-
pended last spring. They are accused
of conspiracy to do an unlawful act"
States Attorney Hoyne was doubtful
whether any crime as legally defined
had been committed within the juris-
diction of the courts of Cook county,
but the attorney for Charles COmiskey,
the broken-hearted owner of the White
SoX, says there are at least two counts
on which each of the players named
in the true bills may be prosecuted.
He says the public paid admissions
to see honest baseball played, and the
conspiracy to throw the games there
by cheated the public. Also he as
serts the men ~conspired to injure the
property of COmiskey, consisting of
contracts worth more than $1,000 600
and the drawing power of the team
and other good will estimated at $780,
coo.
1t is believed that if the state does
not take definite action against the
players the government will prosecute
those who received brides for their
failure to schedule the same on their
income tax reports. Official word to
this effect has been received in Chi
cago from the internal revenue de-
partment in Washington.
The White SOx, which were only
half a game behind the Cleveland team
in the race for the American league
pennant, were of course badly wrecked
when the players were suspend
ed. and the chances were small in
deed that they could win the honor of
playing for the worlds championship
against Brooklyn, which already has
captured first place in the National
league.
Cheers for the League of Notions
council on the ground that it had
stopped or averted hostilities involv-
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-10-08

America met with defeat in the air
plane race for the James Gordon Ben
nett trophy in France. One of her
entries was thrown out by an accident
and the two others did not get far,
owing TO defects of construction in
their engines. The race was won by
a Frenchman, Sadi Lecointe. and the
trophy now remains permanently in
France.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-10-08

The best development of the week
was the way in which prices in the
United States began to decline. In
most cases manufacturers and dealers
who offered the reductions tried to
make it clear that they were based on
expectations of future conditions, in
picion of having profteered at the for
mer prices. Economists called atten-
ton to two things: First, that safety
demanded that prices decline gradual
ly instead of tumbling; second, that
the people must not let the lower
prices lead them into another orgy
of buying, lest the result be another
rise.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-10-08

Though the effort to communize the
industrial plants of Italy is admit
tedly a failure, the disturbances there
are increasing. The workers and own
ers in the metal plants are approach
ing some measur of agreement. with
the aid of the government, but the
employees in other lines and the peas
ants in Sicily and other districts are
yielding to the efforts of radical trou-
ble-makers. Seizure of lands by armed
peasants, beginning in. Sicily, spread
to the north during the week and
threatened to become nationwide.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-10-08

Cheers for the League of Notions
council on the ground that it had
stopped or averted hostilities involy-
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-05-12
PROF. W. S. HILL REMEMBERED

Approaching the splendid work
of Prof. w. S. Hill as teacher in
the Hartford High School, during
the 1920 session, a number of
patrons and pupils Joined in pre-
senting him with shaving set, con-
sisting of two military brushes,
tooth brush, shaving stick, shaving
brush, and comb. Those subscribing
to the fund with which this gift was
secured were: Ed Davidson, Henry
Leach, Rosethlyn Collins, Sallie En-
ma Garden, Robert Carson, Ode
Harper, Hubert Porter, Luther
Turner, Hubert Crowder, Ethel
Binkley, Dick Williamson and Web
Der Clark.
Prof. Hill was also presented
with an ever sharp pencil, by Kath-
leen Turner, Sallie Garden and Web
Der Clark.
A PUPIL.