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Evening star., 1920-01-31
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BY THORNTON W. BURGESS.
Copyright 1920, by 7. w. Bursess)
The Last of the Robber Rats.

Almost at the heels of the last
frightened rat fleeing from the house
of Billy Mink's friend. the farmer
appeared Billy Mink himself. The
rat started for the big barn. but Billy
caught him before he was half way
there.
The farmer. who had been watch
ing, knew that that was the last raj.
He knew it because he knew tAa
Billy would not have shown himself
outside as long as there was rat
left inside. AT once the farmer went
over and stopped up that hole so that
no rat could get back into the house
You killed one of my chickens. you
little brown rascal" said he. but
! you've paid for it ten times over
/ had intended to kill you for that
beautiful brown coat of yours. but
now ] wouldn't harm hair of IT. AS
long as you want to stay around here
you are welcome. In fact. the longer
you stay around here the better | will
like it. and l shall see to ii that you
. have plenty to eat
} Billy Mink didn't hear this. and he
wouldn't have understood it if he
had. But he had already made up his
mind that the farmer was his friend
and that was sufficient.
After catching that last rat to leave
the house, Billy went over to the
woodpile where he was making his
home. 1t didn't take him long to
d1ScONef tnat some those T3tS were
hiding in the wOodpiie. and he prompt
ly hunted them out of there just as he
had hunted them out of the house.
Then. being tired. he curled up for a
nap.
For two or three days after that
Billy Mink hunted rats. He hunted
them until there was not one of that
robber gang left in the big barn. the
henhouse or under the woodpile. In
fact there wasn't one of those robber
rats left on the farm. Where those
who. had escaped had gone. the farm
er didn't know. and Billy Mink didn't
know, and neither of them cared. The
farmer was so happy at being rid of
those robbers that it seemed as if
he couldn't do enough for Billy Mink.
He kept Billy supplied with good
things to eat so that Billy didn't
know what it was to be really hun
CRY. He grew as fat as a mink can
be. and he grew lazy as well.
Now Billy Mink is not naturally
lazy. He is one of the most active
of all the little people of the Green
Forest and the Green Meadows. Not
having to hunt for his food. Billy
found little to do but eat and sleep.
and after a week of this he began
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hua and Coahuila; Felix DiaZ, Pedro
Gabay. Psnuncio. Martinez. Higinio
Aguilar and Pedro Galan. in Vera
Cruz; Abel SalaZar. Gilardo Magma.
Soto CANA and Manuel PalafoN. in
Norelos: Manuel PelaeZ, Magdaleno
Cedillo and his brother. Luis Cabal-
lero. and Eugenio Lopez, in T.mauli-
pas; Felix Panuelos. in Aguascali len =
ties: Pedro Zamora. in co!ima; Gull
lermo Meixueiro in OaTsca; Federico
Cordova Cirilo Arenas, III Puebia
Jesus II. Salgado. in Guerrero.
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TALKS ON REORGANIZATION
Miss Alton Says Foreigners Need
Contact With U. S. Citizens.

Telling. of the Americanization work
in this city. Miss Maude Alton. prin-
cipal of the Americanizations school.
speaking before the Business Women's
Council yesterday afternoon at the
Church of the Covenant. said that
foreigners in this country need per-
sonal contact with Americans. She
said that she knew of many foreign
ers who had lived in the United
States for many years, and even raised
children here. who were not really ac-
quainted with any Americans, and
no did not know the customs
Miss Alton told of the new Ameri-
caniZation school in Georgetown and
said many Syrians We're enrolled
there. She said that the teachers
were trying to go into the homes be-
cause the influence exerted over the
mother would reflect on the children.
In Turkey the disappearance of the
sun at night is accounted for bys sthe
periodical retirement of that pious liim-
mary for prayer and religious reflection
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WILL STUDY NATURAL GAS.
Committee Appointed to Examine
Question of Wastage.

Secretary Lane of the Interior De-
partment has appointed committee of
ten, headed by Van II. Manning. direc-
tor or the bureau of mines. to take up
the question of stopping wastage of nat
u'al gas due to inadequate appliances
80" its hrrdlins and rse. The commit
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tee. on which are representatives of the
industry. the public and the government,
is an outgrowth of the recent confer
erce at the Interior Department. at
which it was asserted that so per cent
of the natural gas output of the country
was wastage.
The committee, in addition to Direc-
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PUTS NUMBER OF REBELS
NOW IN MEXICO AT 5000
Cen Urquizo. Federal Chief, Says
Also Half Are Unarmed or
Poorly Equipped

MENICO CITY. January II tCorre-
spondencc OF the Associated Press. -
There are now 5000 rebels in Mexico.
according TO an estimate by Gen.
Francisco l.. Urquizo. chief Of staff.
At least half of these are declared 10
lie either unarmed or equipped with
useless weapeGs.
Among th, rC bel leaders mentioned
in the summary are: Villa, in Chihua-
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burg: Miss Edna y White. American
Home Economics Association. Detroit:
Art l.. Walker. chairman. corporation
committee. Oklahoma City: Mayor f.
W. Wozencraft. Dallas: Samuel >. Nyer.
consulting natural gas engineer. Column
bus. Ohio. and Dr. I. &. White, state
Scologist of West Virginia.
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Austro-Hurgarian Trading Plan.

VIENNA, JIuur~--- 30-Aa Austro-
HUI z-.riau trade agreeT1sn- has been
rc; 'ir+5 wh.'t 10y trading IL various
FOO. .;.'tfs hitherto bann%d would be
rs-it-:t- ! Tween the .Wo countries
ur-- Apr. 80 The agreement re-
4u..-s ,&-..:atioE cf both govern
mems.
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Lawrence Washington, Chaplain
George Robirsor. L. :. y. retired:
Capt. Alexander 5. Hill. Rev y. ].
Dewitt. Harry Hull. Samuel II. King.
Harvey T.. Jester. Harry Mckeld n,
Jefferson Z. Crallc. Dr. Richard l..
Garner. Mrs. Ellen Hazelton. Mai Ro-
manus A. La Grinder and Maj. Charles
Williams
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tor Manning. * composed of John r.
Corrin. Reserve Gas Company. Pitts
burgh: i. r. Denning. Ohio Fuel Com
pany. Pittsburgh: j. G Mcdowell. Wich-
ita Natural Gas Company, Pittsburgh
w. l.. McCloy. Philadelphia Company.
PittsburSh John :: Killing. public serN-
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NATIONAL.

National Gamers Association an
nounced plans TO increase the food
supply of the nation. Public school
building at Vienna, Va. destroyed by
! fire. Art treasures valued at $3.50, 900
burned in New York. Sergt. Alvin c.
York. hero of the world war. stricken
with appendicitis. New York assem-
| bly, socialists on trial in connection
with their expulsion from the assem-
bly,. Senator Newherry and several
others on trial in Grand Rapids.
Mich, in connection with alleged vio-
| lation of election laws. Gordon Faw-
| cett Handy, murderer and bandit
| electrocuted in New York. Tom Phil
| lips. arrested in Knoxville. Tenn.
| charged with murder of hts wife
parents. Jesse Pomeroy. who served
forty years solitary confinement IN
Boston. is to appear as minstrel
Ity-one suicides occurred in the United
states last year. Wyoming ratified
| the woman suffrage amendment Two
hundred and seventy-one passengers of
| the Powhatan. which sprang leak at
| sea were landed at Hoboken. DR.. Earl
| c. Carr. naval lieutenant, declared he
had found the influenza germ. Nearly
| 1000, 900 gain in church members in
the United States since 1915. Fire
does about $500, 900 damage in Colum-
bus, Ohio Mai. Richard Lloyd George,
son of the British premier. arrived in
New York Reward of 100000 given
| for remedy for cotton boil weevii.;
Henry p Fletcher resigned as United
states ambassador to Mexico. Harvard
College observatory discovered new
star. Among those who died in the
| week were William Woodhead. for
| merlv president of the Associated Ad-
! vertising Clubs of the World; Prof
| r. NJ Johnson. chief historian of the
American expeditionary forces; Rural
| R. Rabbit. mining attorney; Rev.
Cyrus T. Brady, author and Episcopal
| clergyman: DR.. C. NJ. Buchanan. Indian
| agent; H. L. Nudge. former general
mana ger of the Atchison. Topeka and
Santa Fe railway: Justice Charles H 3
Duell. former commissioner of pat
ents and associate justice Of the Su-
preme Court of the District of Co.
| iumbia.
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to get uneasy. He began to long for
excitement and new scenes. And so
one night Billy left his comfortable
quarters and started back for the
Laughing Brook in the Green Forest
near Farmer Browns. the place he
really called home. He was anxious
TO f1nd out il any of his friends there
had been caught in the traps which
had been the cause of his leaving the
Laughing Brook. The next morning
the food put out by the farmer for
him was untouched. and the farmer
knew that Billy had left He was
sorry.
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THE WE Elk
EpitOme of events mp TO Jan
uary 81, 1920.
FOREIGN.

Twenty persons killed by an earth
quake in Macedonia. A. new move
to get the kaiser from Holland ex-
pected in England. Construction of
direct cable between America and
Holland planned. William Marconi
studying wireless signals believed to
be from Mars. Hungary to have a
monarchy. and new king soon to be
chosen. Admiral Won Reuter-, German
officer, freed by British. Japanese
soldiers may stay in Siberia. A
stronger cabinet for Italy reported as
likely DR.. John L. Cope, British eX-
plorer. to attempt to fly to the south
pole in an airplane. The Montene-
grin government assails the peace
conference. Red forces thrown back
across the River Don at Makhiche-
vad. Japanese Premier Hara will
support conference with America.
Matthias Erzberger. German minister
of finance. wounded by "a shot fired
by an assassin. Conference between
the premiers of Great Britain. France
and Italy to be held to discuss the
ka iser's case. The JugoslaV govern
ment will accept the allied ultimaturn
with regard to the settlement of the
Adriatic controversy. American au-
thorities believe it will be March Is
before the last American soldiers and
Red Cross workers are out of Siberia
The kaiser said he does not want to
return to Germany. Lettish troops
captured GuZyn, in eastern Letvia
Albert Thomas, French labor leader
elected director general of the inter
national labor organization at Paris
Ckrainian forces capture Odessa.
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-23
SENATE RAPED
BYBRITISHPAPER
FOR IRISH CLAUSE

LIVERPOOL, March 20.-The
Daily Post, commenting editorially
on the action Of the United States
senate in adopting q new treaty res
ervation expressing sympathy for
the aspirations Of the Irish people
and declaring the hope that Ireland
would have a government Of it's own
choosing in the near future, says:
1.-THE American senate has surely
overstepped the bounds of good
sense, to say nothing OF good taste,
in adopting a reservation to the
peace treaty on Ireland. 1t has as
much as said it will welcome the
emergence of Ireland into full in
dependence. That is hardly neigh
borly. Moreover, it is an example OF
international meddling which the
senate processes to condemn in the
covenant of the League Of Ma
tions.
"All sensible Britons know, of
course, that such resolutions are not
TO be taken quite seriously. They
are, in fact, mere concessions to the
Irish extremists in the United
States; the senate has long shown 4
quick responsiveness to Irish pull
Nonetheless,' they have an undoubt-
ed element of danger. Unhappily,
there are hysterical patriots among
us who may be easily worked up
by certain interested writer's and
speakers to resentment Of ,Ameri-
can interference with purely Brit
ish affairs. This is a fact that the
senators would do we'll to remem-
Der, especially at the moment when
it is of vital Importance to the
world that Anglo-American rela-
lions should be most cordial
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-23
Republicans Meeting
In Gainesville Split
. Into Two Factions

CARTERSVILLE, Ga, March 90
Republicans of the Seventh congress
sional district meeting here today
for their district convention, divided
into two factions. Each faction held
it's own meeting and elected it's own
delegate to the national convention
in Chicago.
One faction, presided over by Wal
ter Alderman, the holdover chairman
from the last election, indorsed Leon
ard Wood for president and elected
d. Cole, of Marietta, delegate to the
Chicago convention. Charles Adam
SON Of Cedartown, was named presi-
Dental elector and also chairman of
committee to nominate a Republic
can candidate for congress from the
district.
The other faction, presided over by
Captain j. P. Dyar, of Adairsville,
nominated L. II. Crawford, of Dalton,
to run on Republican platform
against Gordon Lee. Captain Dyar
was elected delegate to the national
convention. While no instructions
were given, the delegates seemed
about equally divided between Gov
ernor LoWden, of Illinois, and Sena-
tor Warren Harding, of Ohio, for
the presidency.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-23
CO J D =

8. Ans.-The price of butter IN
England is regulated by the British
food controller, who recently allow
ed an increase of cents per pound,
making the wholesale price AZ cents,
and the retail price As cents per
pound.
10. Ques.-Do soils necessarily
wear out?
10. Ans.-Certain soils in Europe
that have been .farmed for thou
sand years are as good as the new
ground in America. There are ten
elements that are necessary to the
growth OF crops. Of these, carbon,
hydrogen, oxygen, iron and sulphur
seem always present in the quanti-
ties necessary and inexhaustible
The five that may be exhausted are
potassium, magnesium, nitrates,
phosphorus and calcium. Soils
should be anaylzed to determine
which of these materials are needed
and the proper fertilizer Or crop ro-
tation used. Thus may the worst Of
so-called WORKOUT soils be brought
up to standard.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-23
40 PER CENT Of PEOPLE
Of SOUTH HALF SICK

Americans, but none more accurate
or expressive. These half-sick peo-
pie today have digestive organs that
are ON the bum Some times when
1 see on the street car or on the
street tired looking man or woman
with dull eyes and a sallow complex
ion, I feel like saying: Say, I know
what's the matter with you. l can
help you if you will do as I tell
YOU
"a sound digestive apparatus that
is doing it's full duty in getting ev-
cry particle Of vitality out Of all
food is what makes good health.
dition and there is likely to be but
little sickness.
''It is the American tendency to
treat the stomach with little respect.
Most people stuff themselves too full
of food, and then when their diges-
tive organs consequently get out OF
order, are half sick all the time, and
don't know what is the matter with
them. My medicine, Puratone, re-
stores misused or out of whack'
stomachs to normak>eondtion and de-
stroys chronic constipation. Thou
sands Of people say that this is the
reason for my big success, and ex-
plains why I am now attracting such
an unusual amount of attention in
the SOUTH"
The leading druggist in nearly ev-
cry town sells Puratone, or Pom
eroy & Company, Atlanta, Ga, will
fill orders at $1.04 per bottle post
paid.-(AdVt)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-23
SENATOR HARRIS
EXPLAINS HIS VOTE
AGAINST TREATY
(The Atlanta Jor7ne- News Bureau)
Gas Riggs Building.
RX THEODORE TIEIER

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 90
Expressing the hope that some basis
of agreement may yet be reached
between the president and the sen"
ate On the peace treaty, Senator Will"
liam J. Harris issued a statement
here late today explanatory of his
votes on the treaty. Senator Har-
ris was one of the twenty Demo-
Gratis who voted against ratification
of the treaty with Lodge reserya-
tons and adhered to the presidents
view that they were multiplying.
Three other Democratic votes
against ratification are classed as
so-called "irreconcilables" who op-
posed the treaty and league covenant
even in modified form.
The statement of Senator Harris
follows:
Under the constitution the execu-
tive is a part of the treaty-nalzing
power. I voted for reservations
which I hoped two thirds Of the SER
ate would support, among these res
ervations being those virtually
agreed upon by the bipartisan con-
ference composed Of Democrats and
Republicans. 1 supported reserva-
ton Oh Article written by ex-
President Taft, which the acting
Democratic leader told Senator
Lodge would have the support OF
thirty-two Democrats, but it was
refused by the Republicans, although
written by a former president of
their own party.
1.-The reserva lions of the bi-parti-
san conference which 1 supported
would have been adopted by the. SEN
ate If the Republicans who posed as
friends of the treaty had not COL
lapsed under the ultimatum of the
irreconcilables who have not sup"
ported the treaty in any FORM.
1.-THE president has stated that if
the so-called Lodge reservation were
adopted that he would decline to ap-
prove the treaty. Nothing would
l." accomplished by voting for the
treaty with the Lodge reservations
when it was definitely known that it
would be pigeonholed by the presi-
dent. In the event of two-thirds Of
the senate adopting the Lodge res
ervation it must be remembered
that Republican irreconcilables as
sisted in passing the Lodge reserva-
lions which they voted against on
the ratification resolution, and with
out the "bitter- ender" vote the Lodge
reservations would not have been
adopted.
THE Republicans have played pol
itics with the treaty because it was
made by a Democratic president, and
they seemed more interested in try
ing to humiliate him than in ratify-
ing the treaty.
II am still hopeful that basis of
agreement may be reached between
The senate and the executive by
which the treaty may be ratified.
THE TRUTH ABOUT GALL STONES
A new booklet written by Dr. E. E. Pad
dock, Box 201-N, Kansas City, Mo-, tells
OF an improved method of treating the
Catarrhal inflammation of the Gall Bladder
and Bile Ducts associated with Gall Stones
from which remarkable results are being
reported. Write for booklet and free trial
plan.- (Advt)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-23
THE WILLY-NICKY LETTERS

I hope you will kindly accept the
two vases for Xmas, which come
from our royal porcelain factory;
they are a symbol Of my warmest
wishes for you and your family and
country for the coming year, in which
God may p1 eserve you all. Believe
me, ever your most affectionate cou-
sin and friend, WILLY"
Asks Personal Favor
Berlin, Jan. Is, 1905.-Dearest
Nicky: The widow of old Prince An
tome Radzivill, Princess Maria, is go
ing to Petersburg to beg for your
approval of her late husbands will.
Prince Antoine was not only a cher
ished and trusted servant of my de-
ceased grandfather as his adjutant
and Acknowledgement, but also
faithful and beloved friend to him
as we'll as to my late beloved father
and to me. His winning ways and
his gay nature as we'll as his chiv-
alrouS character won him friends
wherever he was, and your grand
father and father have both always
cherished him. His wife was the
intimate long-life friend Of my late
mother, and has been made testa-
trix by her husband for his will.
The whole future of her children
and family tests on the fact of your
kind approval of the will, and / ven-
ture to plead her Cause to you and to
beg that you will bestow your kind
ness on her, as she is very sad and
.roken down by her loss; this she
feels the more as her eldest son is
hopeless idiot in an asylum, so
that she must look after her grand
children, too. Your ambassador, Os-
ten-Sacken, is in great anxiety on &C.
count of has poor old wife. She has
mad very serious operation made in
her back-wi+hout having been able
to use chloroform-and is unable to
lie down but must spend her nights
sitting in chair and suffering ter
rible pain, so that considering her
age Of eighty-four her life is feared
for. Poor Old man, the suspense is
very telling upon him, and I am
fra1d that should she die he will
not be able to work as we'll as for
merly, and perhaps think of retiring.
Should change once take place at
our embassy here, / would venture
quite privately to ask you to send
Esvolsky here. He is one of the best
men in your foreign service, and an
intimate friend of long standing Of
,ourt buelow's, who would be over
pleased at having him here, as they
orrnerly served together as diplo-
sky much,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-23
4 More Coal Operators
Indicted by Jury,
Surrender to Officer

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. March 20.
Four more coal operators, indfct-
ed by a federal grand jury on
charges of conspiracy to violate the
Lever at by enhancing the price of
fuel and of defrauding the United
States government, surrendered
Il. ,mselves to the United States
marshal at Indianapolis today. The
men are Edwin D. Logsdon, B. E..
Neal and w. Fl. Tobin, Indianapolis
and William zeeler, Brazil, Ind.
The men were released on $4,000
bond each.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-23
John Pomeroy, Noted New
Zealand Scientist, Declar-
ing Americans Treat
Stomachs With Too Lit
tie Respect-Says Ninety
Per Cent All Illness Due
to Stomach Disorders.

Forty per cent of the people of
the south are half sick, and fully 80
per cent Of these can attribute their
suffering to stomach troubles. Such
are the main points in Pomeroy's
new theory which has so stirred At
lanta during the past few weeks.
This is due to modern conditions"
he explained at his headquarters.
"These people," he went on, "have
run-d down, overworked digestive or
gans, owing to too little exercise in
the fresh air and too much hastily
eaten food. 1t isn't kidney trouble
or nervousness or liver complaint or
dozens Of other diseases invented by
their imaginations.
Zone man who called on me last
week started our conversation by
saying, My stomach is on the bum
1 could think of a more elegant way
to describe the condition of modern
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-23
HITCHCOCK THINKS
PEOPLE MAY GET
WINES AND BEER
[The Atlanta Journal News Bureau
G23 Riggs Building.
BY THEODORE TIILER

WASHINGTON,M March 2O.-Before
leaving tonight for Augusta, Ga,
where he will take a vacation after
the treaty defeat, Senator Gilbert
M. Hitchcock, of Nebraska, amplified
his statement that the American peo-
pie had right to modify the Vol
stead prohibition act and permit the
manufacture of light wines and beer.
Senator Hitchcock, who is a can
didate for the presidency in Nebraska
and who recently defied William j.
Bryan on the dry" issue raised by
the Commoner, replied to a criticism
of his position by Wayne B. Wheel
err, general counsel of the Anti-Sa-
loon league.
81 have noticed the criticism made
by Mr.. Wheeler" said Mr.. Hitchcock,
upon my position on the liquor
question. The best comment I can
make is to reiterate my position,
which he evidently does not fully I'M
dorstand.
"First-I stand for an enforcement
OF prohibition laws, including the
appropriation of all needed money to
enforce them. .a .
"Second-I accept without reserva-
ton the constitutional decision of the
people which abolishes the American
saloon forever and with it strong in
toxicating liquors.
'Th:rd-I believe, however, a law
full way will be found and ought to
be found to permit the manufacture
ans harmless use of light wines and
beers. The supreme court has opened
the way for this by holding that con-
gress in it's enforcement laws, may
decide what constitutes Intoxicating
liquor, and on this matter congress
will naturally respond to the will and
| judgment of the American people
when properly expressed.
"Fourth-The American people can
not be denied the right to change
their laws within constitutional linn
it's, and the Volstead act, like any
other law, may be changed within
those limits"