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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-04-20

Maysville was entirely without hay
last week but several local merchants
received shipments this week and 1t
is being hauled out rapidly by the
farmers,
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-04-20

Rev. j. II. Fielding, rector of the
Church of the Nativity, Cincinnati, is
visiting with friends here.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-04-20

Thomas Darnall was fined 81 in
Police Court this afternoon on charge
If being drunk on witchazel.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-04-20

Mr.. Theodore Cullen left yesterday
on a business trip through the South.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-04-20

Mrs. Andrew Myer returned to her
home in Cincinnati after a visit to Mr..
Frank Hall in Fourth street
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-04-20

Colonel j. Barbour Russell was in
Louisville Monday on important bust
ness
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-04-20

Despite the very bad evening there
were many youngsters who braved the
weather for boat ride last night on
the excursion steamer Homer Smith.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-28
MOTOR TRUCK IS FIRM
 BELIEVER IN THE FUTURE

The motor truck believes in the fu- ture-not the distant future, not in the immediate future, but in both."
 M L. Pulcher, vice president and gen. eral manager of the Federal Motor Truck company, Detroit, voices a most optimistic note for the truck industry, seeing in it's further intensive develop ment part solution of our present transportation problems.
 Many conditions are arising which strengthens this belief among motor vehicle manufacturers and dealers. We know now that the 1920 crops are bumper ones in all divisions. We are assured that the iron and steel business will break all records for production. The railroads are again on a sound footing and expanding tremendously in their service. We cannot help but be positive that the great American pub lie has money and that 100,000,000 peo- pie must buy to go on living.
 Therefore, we are encouraged to make preparations for renewd activities in all business endeavors. Transporta- tion is the one thing that must be keyed up to a new standard. It is the one thing that cannot be retarded if the ria- tion is to grow and if each of us is to profit and live comfortably.
 Tt is for this reason that the motor truck manufacturers and dealers are now urging so earnestly the necessity of every one making a careful study of transportation needs of their business. Business has just begun to get the motor truck stride.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-28

. "
 Officials of the bureau of public roads estimate that there is still avail able approximately s160,000, 900 of Federal aid funds for allocation to pro- 1ects in the various states. This. to- gether with funds obtained from bond issues, from direct levies, and other sources of state revenue, from county bond issues and appropriations will, it is estimated make available for ex- penditure at present between a billion and billion and quarter dollars.
 The funds derived from state and To- cal bond issues. however, and that ta be received from the Federal govern ment will be spread out over period of years and it is doubtful whether much more than one-half of this vast sum will be applied to the construc- tion and maintenance of roads during 1921. Assuming that the expenditures will continue to increase at about the same rate as those for the past two years, it is estimated that there will be expended for road purposes during 1921 approximately $550, 900, 900.
 At the recent election bond issues
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-28
s1CHlCK" EVANS GIVEN
 MERCER MOTOR CAR

In winning the United States Ma tional Amateur championship. as well as the western amateur golf champion ship, Mir. Charles Evans. Jr.. more pop ularly known as Chick" conveyed such additional prestige on his club, the Edgewater Golf club of Chicago, that the members showed their appre- ciation in a substantial manner.
 Saturday, November IS. the champion was called to the clubhouse and pre- sented with a Mercer rune bout, amid much cheering and the clicking of mov- Ing picture cameras.
 Unlike many golfer who has been forced to stagger through the season with the atrocious golf bag his wife picked out for him last Christmas, Chick" was not loaded with any white elephant. The committee took nd chances. mad let him pick out just the car he wanted and his choice was a Mercer.
 At the insistence of his friends and the moving picture men. he teed up at the first hole and drove the ball so faf that he had to climb into his new Mer. cer and drive across the course to catch up with it. The cheers of the spectators drowned out the agonized wailing of the greens committee, who were pacified only by the assurance that the season was over.
 Much as he likes his new car. the champion announced that hereafter he will not depart from the rules and mo. tpriz1 the course.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-28
FEDERAL SYSTEM FAVORED BY PROGRESSIVE STATES
From American Motorist.

TOH AHcT1Cdn MOIOTlSL.
 Congress is made up of representa- tives from forty eight states. cer- tain number of these states wherein population and wealth have accumuiat- ed pay a substantial part of the Fed eral taxes. It is true that these taxes are frequently paid on wealth which does not exist in the states in which the taxpayer resides. Hence the state dces not always deserve the credit for such wealth, but the fact still remains that the owner lives and votes in the state through which the tax filters into the national treasury. .t
 Federal aid to road building mas ben employed judiciously in certain states and very badly in others/ Un- fortunately the law does mot compel the states to function, as states and in consequence one of two things was done with the Federal money in some of the states: it was matched by money from the rich counties or it was dis tributed fpiecemeal among all the counties.
 oef the Federal taxes are inclined to favor national system of highways and they are becoming increasingly op- posed to the discrimination of Federal money on all sorts of road projects and on disconnected systems of highways Those who advocate such practices should bear in mind that the more pro- gressive roads states are sufficiently strong to prevent their continuation.
 If the premises are correct-and we believe they are-that the richer and older and more thickly popula ted states shall give of their plenty to the lesser developed and less wealthy and less populated ones through the Fed eral treasury--in other words that the strong shall help the weak--the same thing ought to hold good in regard to the state itself in relation to it's rich and poor counties
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-28
BANKERSPUT 0N
 BRAKES RIGHTLY Better to Weather Temporary Slump Now Than to Slip
 Into Chaos

Bankers, in putting on the brakes in
 the early fall, saved the United States from what might have been a very se-
 rious condition says c. w. Nash, pres
 idenet of the Nash Motors company. "In fact the situation might have been such that even the federal reserve system with all it's powers could not have pre- vented serious consequences. So when you hear people criticizing bankers for their attitude they are not speaking fairly.
 Isn't it better that we should all
 weather 6 temporary slump and stay on top than go over the precipice in spring into chaos from which it would take some years to recover?
 Had the bankers given every business
 man all the money he wanted every one
 would have goine out and bought every l thing in sight and the result would have
 been such an overstocked condition that wild cutting of prices would have lead to demoralization. Instead we find many lines with not too heavy an overload be- cause of the curtailing of production in practically all lines of business This, of course, has meant a temporary loss to a great many individuals and cor porations, but the loss has been spread over the country so well that we can easily absorb it Now we are getting down to earth
 Business having become stabilized, is picking up. By that I mean it is not going to return to normal overnight, or iE week. but 1t is coming along na- Iurally for we are now getting our breath. When spring rolls around the over-supply period will all be> behind us and conditions will have become more normal.
 People are now recovering from that state of mind in which they felt the country was going to the dogs and 1t was therefore incumbent upon them to hold on to every dollar they could get. In the past few months I have travelled about the country great deal and have found that the public is more at, ease with the result that a buying ,pe- riod had started again. This means healthy business conditionsn .--,l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-28

The proposed change in which the state highway engineer of Arizona was to have been supplanted by commits sion of five members was also defeat ed. In Florida and Washington it was intended to use the automobile regis tration money to float the bond is- sues
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-28
BILLION DOLLARS FOR GOOD ROADS Half of That Amount Will Be Spent During Coming
 Year

Washington, D. C.. November 27.- Over a billion dollars is now available for road building and maintenance in the United States, of which approxi- mately s550. .ooo,0 900 will probably be ex- pended during 1921, according to fig ures compiled by the A. A. A. Good Roads board.
 State bonds for highway improve ment aggregating s533, 10000 have been authorized during the past three years During 1918, State bonds amounting to $60,0O0,0o0 were author ized in Illinois and s5O,00o.000 in Penn sylvania The following issues were
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-28
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Authorized November 3.
 The constitution of Kansas prohibit- ed the state from engaging in inter nal improvem ents, but this difficulty was removed by the referendum at the recent election. That state may now pay one-fourth of the cost of not to exceed 100 miles of road in each coun- ty and not to exceed s1o,o00 per mile.
 The amount of bonds authorized in the state of Virginia was not fixed in the referendum measure, but the legislature may under the law vote bonds to the extent of approximately $50, ooO, 900.
 proposal was approved in Califor- mia increasing the interest on the state highway bonds from AZ but not tc exceed per cent, which will permit the state to dispose of the $4o0oo, 900 in bonds.
 The s2s, ,ooo,oo bonds authorized in New Jersey are for the purpose of pay ing the states share If the cost of vehicular tunnel under the Hudson river
 During the past year bond issues have been authorized in the various counties in the United States amount ing to approximately $3e7.ooo, 900. The amounts authorized in each state are indicated as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-28

with full authority will control build ing development in Jerusalem, Jaffa,
 Haifa and Tfberias, working on plans approved by a central commission. This
 body may be headed by Sir Patrick
 Geddes of the University of Edinburgh, town planner of Bombay and other cities of Indian. Landowners have been advised to consult with the local com
 missioners before attempting new con-
 struction.
 Palestine Is now half empty and there
 is ample room for new communities and modern quarters. In building them the poor must not be huddled in crowded settlements, which the rich enjoy spa cious houses and delightful gardens, said the high commissioner in anneune- ing his city planning ordinances. Tt is the duty of the government to supervise such things" he Is quoted as saying. We may hope to have here noble cities with park and open spaces, designed, not in the foreign extraneous style, but breathing the spirit of the land, representing the best ideals of
 those who work for it's upbuilding."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-28
BEAUTIFY PALESTINE
Open Spaces and Parks Provided
 BountifuIly In New Plans
By Associated Press

New York, November 7.-Neither stuffy tenements, dirty factories, mar row streets, or sullied slums will be tolerated in Jerusalem and other urban land" by the British high comrniss- toner.
 Anticipating heavy influx of Jews back to the Holy Land. city and town planning commission has been appoint ed to regulate the distribution of popu- lation, and prevent a mushroom growth spelling forever the beauty of the an- cient cities, according to information received by Zionists here.
 All town plans will have to be ap- proved by the high commissioner, Sir Herbert Samuel Civic commissions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-28
HONEY MEN MEET
Bee Keepers to Assemble In Chicago
 to Discuss Problems

,Watertown, Wis, November N.-A con- ference of leading honey producers of the Americas has been called at Chicago the first week in December, where President E. Guy Le Stourgeon, San Antonio, plans to have outlined the immediate activities of the American Honey Producers league. Representatives of the Canadian, Mexican and South American honey producers have been invited to the sessions.
 A tariff on honey importations, plans to inform honey shippers of ready mar kets hero and abroad, national and local legislation favoring the industry, educa- tional work in schools and in homes will be discussed Leading authorities who have been invited to assist in the work are: Frank Rauchfuss, Denver; r. B. Paddock. Ames; George H. Req. Ithaca; E. S. Miller, Valparaiso; Ernest Root, Medina, O.; Kenneth Hawkins, Water- town, Wis; pr. E. F. Phillips Washing ton, D. C.; Colin Campbell Grand Rapids; J J. Wilder, Waycross, Ga.; Clifford Muth, Cincinnati; G. M. Bentley, Knox vile, and l.. c. Dadant, Keokuk. Apiary inspectors of the middle western states will convene in Chicago at the same time. as will the Chicago-N Northwestern Beekeepers association. M
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-28

L;cat Car weighs $50 pounds. Runs 70 so. W GOO lniies or more on one set of tires. Can be operated for a whole year. driven &,0oo miles and not cost more than a. % : week. This allows 35c per gallon for the naximum of 125 Gallons of Gasoline (a total sf $43.7y) and leaves $s6.3S for tires, oh, etc.--a very gensrous allow. enee. Remember Ths Hssovey Lioht iustnents aad repairs of heavy car.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-28
NEW LINCOLN MARKERS
Monuments to Make Routes He Used
 to Take as Lawyer

Springfield. H., November U.-Monu- mental posts are soon to be erected in IS counties in central Illinois to mark the roads travelled by Abraham Lincoln in lS47 when he was most actively en- gagged in the practice of law.
 In those days Lincoln and other law yers of the vicinity travelled with the court then Judge David Davis over what was known as the Eighth Judicial circuit Horses and buggies were used. it taking sometimes more than day to travel from one courthouse to an. other.
 The monuments will be erected on the county lines and boulder markers will also be- erected in each county seat where Judge Davis held court
 The work has been promoted by an organization called the Lincoln Circuit Marking association.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-28
PRESERVATIvE FOR
 HOSE CONNECTIONS
From Motor Life.

From Motor Life.
 The rubber hose connection between the radiator and the cylinder jacket outlet and the pump connections should be coy. cred with shellac at intervals to keep them waterproof and also impervious to the oil and grease that are inevitable around ar engine Oil and grease have a een- dency to disintegrate and rot the rubber but shellac prevents these materials from working into the rubber.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-28

of labor and materials. to the lack of
 open top equipment on the railroads,
 ket very little of this money as yet | has been expended.
 During 1920 total of ss09, 900, 900 of state highway bonds have been voted
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-10-16
KEYP0RT LEGION
POST IS ACTIVE

KEYPORT, Oct. 16.-Members of
Raritan Post, No. 23 American Leg
ion are now receiving the highly
priced Victory medal offered to all
ex-soldiers, by the war department.
Application for the medal must be
made by the soldier and the war de-
partment Is anxious to get them dis
tributed. There is a medal for every
man and the necessary blank forms
for the application may be obtained
from Commander H. T. Hopkins.
The state convention of the Amer
lean Legion went on record man.
imously in favor of the state bonus.
An active campaign for the passage
of the Bonus Referendum in this
eral election on November 2 is now
underway.
Members of Raritan Post. No. %
have been invited by the Rev. A. G.
Brady to attend a special service to
be held at Calvary NJ. L. church on
Sunday November IA in commemor-
alton of Armistice day. The service
will be a memorial service for the
heroic soldiers. sailors and marines
who gave their lives to their country
in the World war and which observ-
ance of the day has been directed by
President Wilson who has also di-
rected that the flag of the United
States at all military posts naval sta
tions, vessels and on buildings of the
United States be displayed at half
mast on that day. as a token of the
nations participation in the exercises
elsewhere held.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-10-16
MOVEMENT TO aid
NURSING PROFESSION

BOSTON, Oct. ia movement
to build up an adequate body of
nursing attendants to serve at moder-
ate wages in homes where outside
care is needed in cases of sickness
but where means are lacking to pay
trained nurses has been started in
this city. The Household Nursing
Association is Offering from
twenty to forty-five years of age a
carefully planned course which it
describes as designed to prepare
them for the care of sickness in the
home and the care of the home
during sickness"
New classes are formed every
seven weeks. The expense for the
training is small. The course ex-
tends e a period of seven months.
beginning with study of the care of
the house. marketing, cooking, diet
etics and nursing. After this pre-
liminary work the students are sem
to cooperating hospitals for four
months, receiving actual training and
experience in the care of patients.
After are of a mother and baby is
then learned in a maternity hospital.
When the course is completed the
students are given case work under
supervision of a trained nurse for
five months. If their work has
proved satisfactory they are then
given diplomas and are permitted to
work independently . Through a
registry system the association is
able to provide constant employment
for graduates of the course.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-10-16
RIGHT LEAD ON
FLYING DUCK

Now is the time of the year to 30
into the field. shoot some game
for yourself and friends. and in play
ing the part of the Good Samaritan
you are also helping in reducing the
high cost of living.
With each hunting season we re-
ceive a barrel of letters from shoot
ers inquiring about leads, how much
to lead a bird, ETC., and we answer
what we can and turn the hard ones
over to those more expert in the line
of ballistics.
Here is a question on the lead re-
quired on a flying duck" and the
answer, which will interest all
hunters:
"QucstiOn-What should be the lead
required on a duck flying thirty miles
an hour in a direction at RICH: angles
to the line of fire, at 120 feet distance
and at $50 feet distance? The shooter
is using a II gauge gun loaded with
8 IA drains of smokeless, j Ia OF.
No. 4 shot.
Answcr-The shot will travel owe
a distance of 100 feet at an average
velocity of $50 f. $. or .00104 seconds
for one foot, or .124S seconds for 120
feet. Add to this .003 for trigger and
barrel time. and we have the total
elapSed time from the moment the
trigger is pulled to the time that the
shot crosses the path of the duck, or
1928 seconds.
The duck is travelling at the rate OF
thirty miles per our in a direction
that will cross the line of fire at right
angles. Thirty miles per hour is
fourty-four fee. per second, and we
find that during the time that the
shot is travelling over the local
distance. the duck will have moved
1~278-1O000 of forty-four feet, or
5.6232 feet, by which amount the
shooter must lead him.
For the distance of 1870 feet we
will an average velocity of
500 feet per second-since we have
lno tables which give this. An average
velocity of 500 feet per second would
be one foot in .00125 seconds, and
for the whole $50 feet will be $50
times .00125. or .225 seconds. Add
to this .003 seconds for trigger and
barrel time. and the total elapsed
time will be .22S seconds. In .228
seconds the duck will have Travelled
22S-1000 of forty-four feet or I0.032
feet. and this is the amoun the
shooter will have to lead him."
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-10-16
Condemns Riding Horses to Death

BY The Associated Press.
MADRID-The practice 9f riding
horses into the bull-ring to be mu-
tilated and tortured by lhaddened
bulls without a chance of escape or
opportunity to avoid attack is de-
nounced by Ramon Gomez de la
Serna in La Tribuna. The writer
argues that the horse suffers agony
from the time he enters the ring
blindfolded, for he scents the bull
which he cannot see and trembles
and perspires with fear.
Senior de la Serna remarks that
such a method of putting a horse to
death is unworthy of human dignity
and s~elf-esteem. He declares some
bull-fighters feel that such cruelty
is unnecessary and n of them,
Minute, even invented armored pro-
lection for the picadors' horses, al
though this proved futile, as the in
furiated bull always found a weak
spot in the cuirass.
The author concludes that the
League of Nations would have done
well to have taken the matter up.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-10-16
AN ENTHUSIAST

What is an enthusiast? He Is
something more than a man with a
hallelujah type of mind. He is not
to be COMPOUNDED with the individual
whose distinguishing characteristics
are an explosive vocabulary and a
monopoly of the exclamation point
in punctuation.
He is not merely the leader of a
mob. the organizer of discomfort. the
author of the contributed articles
in the daily paper telling us how
the town should be run. the patron
saint of anything that is startling and
original.
The enthusiast Is a promoter, but
he is something besides. He has
vision, but he is not visionary. He
has big ideas. but he does not despise
details. He believes in the future,
but he is not contemptuous of the
past. He has temperament, but he
also has horse sense. He possesses
ginger. but he does not lack grit.
Yes, the enthusiast is all this, and
considerably more. He is what his
name indicates if he is a sure enough
enthusiast and not merely a tinsel
counterfeit with a tin horn.
An enthusiast is one whose life is
in gear with the infinite. There
fore difficulties do not discourage him
nor obstacles stop him. He is not
bothered by poverty. for he feels that
he is here not to see what he can get
out of life but what he can put into
it. He is concerned not about what
other people may do for him. but
what he may be able to do for them.
He does not worship the payroll.
You cannot commercialize a true en-
thusiast. He is willing to suffer for
his idea. He rather enjoys the per-
secution that gives publicity to his
work and helps along his cause.
He sees barriers, but does more.
He sees through barriers. He sees
over barriers. He sees the unsee
and hears the inaudible. Therefore.
he is full of confidence when clay
souls despair.