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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-03-19
BASKET BALL TEAM TOOK ~
FIFTH PLACE IN TOURNAMENT

The boys basket bali team .of the
High School returned. .Snttday after
noon from Cape Girardeau, where they
had engaged in the Southeast Missouri
High School basket ball tournament
at the Teachers College. The local
team took fifth place. They played
three games while there and won one.
Another was won by forfeit from
the Bernie team. Fredericktown was
defeated the first night Of the tourna-
ment by the F. FL. $. team, but later
in the series both Poplar Bluff and
Festus defeated the local team, dis
qualifying them and placing them in
fifth place.
The Desloge H. S. team, this coun-
ty, won third place. Jackson placed
first, Poplar Bluff second, Desloge
third, Festus fourth and Pennington
fifth. There were twelve teams CONE
peting in the tournament, among them
Sikeston, Charlottesville, Fornfelt,
who won the championship last year,
and others who were said to have
strong teams. ~ Y
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-03-19

1t is predicted that men and women
representing both sides of the prohi-
,bition question will attend the Joplin
convention, armed with resolutions pro
and cob, The chances are that the is
sue will be side-stepped by both the
Republican and Democratic State
gatherings for the reason that the
United States Supreme Court will, be-
fore the November election, give de-
cision on tie "constitutionality" of
the Federal prohibition amendment,
and the enabling act, and also clearly
define what constitutes an intoxicant,
which finding. whatever it will be,
might seriously embarrass any polls
cal party going on record, one side or
the other, ahead Of time. The resolu-
ton committees of both conventions
viii probably forget to report out any
wet and dry planks which may be sub
mitted. 'ss''' 10 ait =
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-03-19

of any opportunities to discuss the
resolutions and the circular letter of
March 18th, with any patrons or
others interested in the schools, re-
CARELESS of whether or not they feel
disposed to concur with him in the
conclusions therein set forth. The cir
cular letter is as follows:
81 am pleased to enclose herein a
copy of the resolutions adopted by the
St. Francois County School Board
Convention held at Pennington March
18th, last. / desire particularly to
call your attention to Section "b" of
the resolution numbered 4th. The At
torney-General has rendered an opin-
ion that it is entirely legal for schools
to vote a building and repair fund as
provided for under Section 10797, Re-
vised Statutes of Missouri for the pur-
pose of later transferring money
raised in such way to the incidental
fund. Therefore you will be enabled
to place the entire amount raised for
both teachers and incidental funds in
the teachers fund and provide for your
incidental expenses as | have indicat-
ed
81 must remind you, however, that
in order to vote upon the proposition
Of lovying a building and repair fund,
it is necessary that fifteen days notice
be given. This, of course, can easily
be done by inserting the proposition
in your annual school meeting notices.
Unless something is done to very ma
terially increase the salaries of teach
ers this year, many districts will be
unable to open school next September.
~ therefore hope that no districts
in st. Francois county unable to pay
teachers minimum salary of at least
$75 per month will fail to vote at least
a 25c levy for building and repair
fund. Under new law passed last
year, only bare majority is required
to carry such levy. AS you know, it
formerly required two-thirds major
ity to carry such a proposition.
81 shall be very glad to have the OPP
of consulting with any
Board of Directors desiring my SER
vices as to ways and means of pro-
viding adequately to the end that we
may successfully cope with the very
serious educational crisis confronting
u.s."
]. CLYDE AKERS,
Co. Supt. of Schools.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-03-19

Notice is hereby given to the quail
fed voters of "School District of
Pennington" also known as District
No. "a, Townships 80 and SO, Ranges
and 6, of the County of St Francois,
State Of Missouri, that the annual
school election of said district will be
on
Tuesday, April 6, 1920,
at the following polling places in the
City of Pennington, Mo-, to-wit:
First Ward-City Hall, east side of
Public Square.
Second Ward-Circuit Court room,
Court House.
Third Ward George C. Forster's
office in Farmers Kank Bldg.
Fourth Wcrd-IIenrv Manley's shop
ON Henry street, one-half block south
of Columbia street. '2'-'''' %
I Polls will be open for such election
at 6 o'clock a. m. and close at 7
o'clock p. m. of that day.
The purpose of said election shall
be to elect two Directors for a term
of three years; also to vote upon a
proposition proposed by the Board of
Directors 20 authorize the Board of
Directors to levy a tax rate of 100
cents on the One Hundred Dollars as
sesgcd valuation for school purposes;
and also to vote upon a separate prop
osition proposed by the Board of Di-
rectors of said District to levy a sepa-
rate tax of 35 cents on the One Hun
bred Dollars assessed valuation for the
.Irpose of repairing and furnishing
tie school buildings of the District
Building FUND.-. n-
By order of the Board of Directors
Of School District of Pennington.
" GEORGE X. WILLIAMS, Pres.
]. P. CAYCE, Secretary.
March 10, rs and April 4.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-03-19
BIG DEMOCRATIC
ACHIEVEMENTS
(By A. T. Edmonston)

Jefferson City, Mo-, March 49,
While the Democratic State Platform
on which the party ticket will sweep
Missouri at the general election of
next November, will be formulated
and promulgated during the confer
ence in the capitol city of the nomi-
nees, not long after the August pri-
mary, it is expected that the April
Joplin State Convention in resolu-
ltions will proclaim where the ."only
reliable party" stands at the present
time On certain paramount State is
sues. It will be up to Missouri's pres
ent, Governor, Frederick d. Gardner,
Who has been selected as temporary
Chairman by the Democratic State
Committee, to call the gathering to
order and then sound the key note of
the next campaign through repeating
the now well known but ever popular
story of Democratic State achieve
ments during the last three years. To
review these accomplishments here,
oen by one, and give each the credit
due it, would stretch this political
prattle into a story long enough to
fill fair-sized book, and, therefore,
this task will not be attempted. But
here are some of the real coups d.
etat, briefly narrated:
n In two years the present State Dem
Cratic administration, Through rigid
economy and business-like manage
ment of, the affairs of Missouri, paid
a State deficit Of over $2,250, 600, dat
ing back fifteen years, an indebted
ness which assumed alarming proper
tons during the four-year period,
commencing with 1909 when the "mys-
terious stranger" was in full control
Of the executive reins.
Secretary of State John L. Sullivan,
during the three years and the months
Of Januocy and February Of 1920, that
he has had supervision over the col
Letting Of licensing fees from automo-
biles, chauffeurs and, dealers broke all
past records for financial accompiish-
mcnts of this Aeiiafact& for tliis State
Department through turning into the
State Treasury a otal of $4,749, 1893 for
good road fund, already al |
lotted, or TO be allotted, between the |
LA counties and the city qf HH Louis.
Balance Excels An Previous |
Records.
Z On March /, 1920, there was in the
State Treasury 1 total of IS, 379, 141.3o,
! balance which nearly trcbled any
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-03-19
LOCAL MARKET REPORT
Prepared by McAtee Produce Co.
Who are Paying the Following
Prices Today:

Eggs, per dozen ~. $50 \. .36c. !,
Hens, per ID 49,, ..30c
Tom Turkeys; per ID ...s.. !. ~. ,a2s
Old Gesseaper-ib ..adsc
4-ib Staeeoa. 21S 1.
Cocks, spercib ......,... !. ~. !. LIZ n
Dncks,s perqp ). j. ~. ". $4E
Veal Caves ss Def il ,sti6e tsf i a.
R aldes, per a, " sfg3 ID III, Y a5s y
HAMS HAMS per- per- iiba + 2 az Z e Sc y
Shoulders, per ID l8c to 20ts I
New Potatoes, per bu. $3.50 to eE:S5 II
Good butter, per ID 4.l.9.ss 4. staas. l5cFi
Packing Butter, PEI B 4. ss.,::ss Soc 1,
Wool, per 10 /. y Il! /. 400 to Soc ii
Muscovy Ducks, per b $3.50. .F.ia 15cas
Copper, per pound .....s.. \. ..rsau BE I'll
Brass, per pound ............ y. y, Ecuys
Lead, per b .............. 2csto lei
Rags, per 100 lbs ........... $3.50
Zinc, per 10. ..,......... &c {
Aluminium, per n ...... Zoe I
Iron, per 100 ms .... .8oc
Inner Tubes. per ID II, Il. Il. .:ac ID Acs 81
'Auts Casings, per p ....a..... l1sek 81,
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-03-19
COUNTY SCHOOL NOTES i

The st. Francois County Il School
Board Convention held at Farming
ton last Saturday was most success
full meeting in every way both as re-
CARDS attendance and in interest. As
indicated in this column last week, by
far the greater part of the discus
sion was devoted toward solution Of
the teacher shortage problem. The
County Superintendent wants to pub
icly acknowledge his deep apprecia-
ton of the efforts of lHlL ~hGassistad
in the discussions. n 4 EN
He feels more than ever offstfafngd
TO believe that no county in the State
OF Missouri has more excellent set
of school directors. TheS& Eyarfous
boards Of directors have in turn chos-
en- superintendent, teachers and 'prin-
cipals par excellence who are always
able and willing. in and out Of school,
to contribute of their time, energy
and money to the carse Of education.
In another column of the current issue
of this paper will appear copy of the
resolutions which were unanimously
adopted by the convention. These
resolutions. give in substance the sa-
lent points Emphasized and the con-
illusions reached by the convention as
a result of the discussions. That the
public generally may be enabled TO be
fully conyersant with conditions and
as to ways and means Of. remedying
present conditions, the County Super
intendent here publishes circular
letter which, with copy Of the reso-
luticrls, he has sent out under date Of
March 10th, to all ST. Francois County
ashocl BoArds, HI will b very glad
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-03-19
CALL FOR DEMOCRATIC
COUNTY CONVENTION

By direction of the Democratic
Central Committee of st. Francois
county, a Delegate Convention of the
Democratic party of st. Francois
county is hereby called to meet in the
Circuit Court room in the city of
Pennington on SATURDAY, APRIL
3, 1920, at /: 80 o'clock p. M, for the
purpose of selecting fifteen delegates
to the Democratic State Convention to
be held at Joplin April %, 1920. In
said convention the various townships
of the county shall be entitled to the
following number of delegates:
Big River township, one delegate.
Iron township, two delegates.
Marion Township, two delegates.
Liberty township, two delegates.
Pendleton township, one delegate.
Perry township, six delegates.
Randolph township, nine delegates.
st. Francois township, twelve del
egates.
All delegates to the County Con-
vention shall be chosen in the fol-
lowing manner:
A Township Convention of the
Democratic voters shall be held in
each township of the county on SAT-
URDAY, MARCH 81, 1920, at 1870
O'Clock p. M, at which time there shall
be selected the number of delegates
to which such township is entitled in
the County Convention. The Town
ship Conventions shall be held in the
following places:
Big River township '';ra .
Iron Township-Rismarck. =
Liberty Township-4Knob Lick.
Marion Township-French Village.
Pendleton Township-Doe Run.
Perry Township-Bonne Terre.
Randolph Township-Desloge.
st. Francois, Township--Flat River.
The place of meeting in each town.
ship shall be designated and provided
by the Central Committeeman of that
township, and said Committeeman
shall call the convention to order, or
select some one to do so, and when
such Township Convention is duly
organized, it shall select the number
of delegates to which such township
is entitled. The credentials of the del
egates to the County Convention shall
be signed by the Chairman and Sec
rotary Of the Township Convention,
and all resolutions and instructions
shall also be certified by them.
The Democratic women voters of
st. Francois county are hereby in
vited to hold their meetings for the
selection of delegates at the same time
and place in each township as provid-
ed above for men. Women are EMIT
led to the same number Of delegates
from sachltownship as provided above
for men.biv, ,~.g a.
Witness my hand this 18th day of
March, 1920. ,.,l 49,. - D., Il
J.,J. BOWMAN, Chairman, c,I
Democratic Central Committee,' st!
Francois County.
By F. W. Monroe, Secretary.
In accordance with the above call,
the Democratic women voters of. st.
Francois county are hereby called to
meet in the various townships. at the |
same time and place as provided above
for men, and select the same number
of delegates as provided above for
men. a
MRS. S. J. TETLEY, Chairman. Il
Women's Democratic Central Com
nnittee. cey' ~ u
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-03-19
LICENSED TO MARRY
March 12-Ralnh Turner and Lille
Wise, Elvins.
March I3--CysW. .sAnderson, St.
Tauis, and Edna MaybsTyy, Esther,
ROUTE 3

Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Miller spent Sun
day with thelatter's parents, Mr.. and
MRS. Joel Hanimors.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Gordon spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. A. C. Wade.
Misses Alberta and leila Mcdaniel
spent Sunday with, their cousin, Gladys
Mcdaniel.
Mss Resva Boyd spsnt Sunday With
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-03-19
Misses Genevieve ana Martha vaHe
JIM

Misses Genevieve and Martha vaAe
of Coffman. s4
Miss Iva Mcdaniel returned home
Saturday, after spending two weeks
with her aunt, Mrs. Nicholas Thomure.
4 Mr.. and Mrs Ed Mcdaniel, Mr.. and
Mrs Frank Harter and family, Mr..
and Mrs. Berton Jones and daughter,
Aletha, spent Sunday with Rev. and
Mrs. w. E. Golfer and family.
Dennis and Isaac Thomure, who
have employment in st. Louis, spent
Saturday and Sunday with their
mother, Mrs. Mary Thomure.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-03-19
MONDAY CLUB
A a. Ell ELECTS OFFICERS

ths4a Monday, GLIB ksssld,, its annual
ELECTION at its regular b9Sihess Meet
ing and the Following officers were
elected for ,the. year 1920-21: Presi-
dent, Mrs. J. B. Smith; 1st Vice Pres
ident, Mrs. Roy Johnson. 2nd Vice
President, Mrs, Robt. Forsyth; Secre-
tary, Mrs. Fred Karsch. Treasurer,
Miss Emma Lang. The Inauguration
Of these officers will take place at
the last meeting Of the current year,
in May.
"Americanism" was unanimously
chosen as the subject for next years
york and the topics chosen for study
viii cover every phase Of good citi-
zenship.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-03-19
ANNUAL SCHOOL ELECTION

Co, Supt. of Schools,
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-03-19

On March /, 1920, there was in the
State Treasury 4 total of IS, SIS, 141.39,
. balance which nearly trcbled any
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-03-19

,JonIin call far. endorsament ~ AZ
proposition for q convent;on 70 ,ev;s e
ard re ;1venate the State cnnst;trt;a, n: !.
the bndpet svstem for annronr;at;n -
State reven,,e finds. e,ect;pn thr @,s
ponular vote Of the nemhors ' nf ~ r.
Missonr; p,hI;c Sarv;ca Cnn,, ~ ia;
No members If tbe formor Sta4a pa;,
road Commission once we've ;nstaad
of selection tl,romob anno;ntnan. . ~
strenpthening and rebphil;tat;r,n, d tho
present state.w;de nr;marv Iam 'ne
80 .@".
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-03-19

Better get auto license -zes the
Sheriff will GET you.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-31
Humor at Cornell
To the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: If your correspondent. Paul
W. Aearney, really has fears that
the American college man has lost his
sense of humor and cites as an ev-
dence of that "a rotten piece of COL
lege journalism" put out at the Uni
versity of California, wish that he
could see a copy of The Cornell Mourn
ing Male.
The Mourning Male is as rappy a
piece Of college humor as has been
published. Not only does it present
IN delightful satire the sensible Cornell
undergraduates view of the much
nouted coed problem, but it was ac
citrate enough to bring results. 1t
practically put at rest the controversy
started by the publication of the un
accepted and ccnsured report of the
Committee of nine rather undiplomatic
seniors.
Mr.. Kearney could undoubtedly pct a
copy Of The Mourning Male from Sjgma
Delta Chi, the journalistic society at
Cornell that published it, or from The
cornell Daily Sun, both at Ithaca.
PETER VISCHER.
New York, Dec 20, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-31
A Plea for Hatred
This Reader Argues Against Any
Forgetting of German Crimes

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: | have read the letter of one
lucius f. Herr, first lieutenant, who Is
Fortified because some one objects to
aiding the children of the Huns, and
who wants to discontinue this spirit of
hate, applying to the case some very
harsh language
Propaganda in favor of the Huns
takes many forms. Every day we are
having new proofs of the dLplcity and
hypocrisy Of that race of vpers. for
the Huns are vipers if ever there
existed race meriting the epithet. In
Colombia, during the war, saw chill
dren Of Germans, whose mothers we're
Colombian, Of eight or ten years, spit
ting the most filthy insults at Ameri-
cans and the Allies, taught them by
their fathers.
While there is one Frerch or Bel
gian child in need, victim of the most
damnable savagery that history has
ever rccounted of any race, l have NOS
penny for Huns or their children.
who gloated over the cruel extermina-
tion of pacific peoples.
We are forgetting altogether too
soon. They are presenting already
without protest the music of the Hun.
We are paying dearly day for the
damnable sins of the Hun, and some
want US 10 support the vpers, al
though their land was left intact and
they have plenty. For me their
cries of woe are devoid of truth and
sincerity. We certainly have had
proofs sufficient of their duplicity and
to what ends of lies and hypocrisy
they will 60 in order to save their
marks.
1t is righteous, it is just, it is neces-
sary that we inculcate hatred for that
cruel race, which has caused such ter
rlble suffering and the disappearance
Of millions. 1t is cruel and oppressive
when in power, it is whining and
hypocritical when defeated, but beneath
that whining and that hypocrisy one
sees ever the coil of the viper that
stings and kills.
am seventh generation American
OF slX Hugucnot families and two Of
rre-Revolutionary English families and
think only as an American, char
ltably disposed, but while there Is ono
French or 3elgan child suffering vic
tim Of the damnable cruelty of the
Hun, the Huns and their viperish de-
scendnnts may perish.
GEORGE R. DU BOIS.
New York, Dec. 29, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-31
Man, the Pygny

Man, the pygmy, ought to be ac-
customed by this time to the discov-
cry of his own unimportance. He
has done it so often since science
arrived upon the terrestrial scene to
blast his conceits! The new measure
ment of Orion's right shoulder
shrinks our tiny globe to a negligible
speck in the universe. But what is
that to the shocks that have gone
before!
Those ingenious Spectators, the
modern psychologists, are fond Of
reducing these shocks to three main
discoveries. The first was mans
discovery that, so far from being the
center of everything and living on
the only patch of ground anywhere,
that patch was only d small bite of
very large globe, which in turn
was but one revolving unit in a vast
cosmos of carths and stars.
The second shock came many CEN
turies after in the shape of the
Darwinian theory. Heretofore
man had conceived of himself as a
very special creation for which the
whole world had been built and he
assumed that he had been wound m
and set in motion as the chef-d'o7.1,re
Of all eternity. The new theory of
things left him as the climax of
known creation, but gravely attacked
his uniqucness Of origin--it made
him the natural descendant. or at
least the relative, of all sorts of de-
spised things, from tadpoles to
monkeys.
The psychologists consider that
the world is just now approaching
an equally grievous shock to egoism
as result Of the discoveries rclat-
ing to oar subconscious minds. Tho
change in outlook is like that follow
ing the acceptance Of the Darwinian
thcory. for it reveals human con-
seriousness as anything but a self
determining and independent crea-
tion, as we have fondly conceived II
10 be, and has closely related it to
New-York tribune., 1920-12-31
The Bond Deal Indictments

The outgoing State Comptroller
has been indicted on charge of
grand larceny. So has the incoming
Comptroller, now deputy in the de-
partment. They are both entitled to
q suspension of judgment pending
trial. But it is obvious that if they
followed a bond purchase system
long in vogue there is need of legisla-
ton revising the system.
The grand jury which brought in
the indictments called the Governor 5
and the Legislatures attention 70
"the extreme laxity of the methods
by which these funds { in the Comp
troller's custody] have been in
vested" Testimony given in the
John Doe hearing tended to show
that the state often paid more than
the market price for bonds and that
it dealt largely with a few firms and
individuals. Albert A. Judson, a
broker, also indicted, was middle
man in many transactions, and is re-
ported to have received large sums
in commissions during the Travis ad-
ministration.
There seems to be no good reason
why the Comptroller shouldn't buy
bonds at first hand. He could easily
save the commissions which have
been going to favored outsiders. The
present method leaves the door open
to manipulations for private ad-
vantage.
The state government is a run
down machine. 1t needs feorgan-
ization. 1t serves the public badly
because it lacks order, balance, CEN
tralization of responsibility and
pride in it's responsibilities.
From another point of view the in
dictments are reassuring-tend to
quiet the apprehensions Of those who
fear the courts have become re-
specters of persons. Here is the
second officer of the state brought to
book for alleged misdoings as nor
mally and naturally as any other
accused. Here is no support for the
familiar picture of our institutions
drawn by soap-box artists.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-31
Naval and Military Burdens

The British government has re-
ferred the subject of its naval build
ing program to the committee which
will not make report until next
May. There is a strong sentiment
in England against a building race
with the. United States and Japan.
The press, though so mystifed by
the muddled and contradictory state
ments of Mr.. Daniels, has wisely
concluded to pay no attention to him
during his remaining days.
In the meantime several leading
newspapers in Japan favor an
agreement with Great Britain and
the United States to limit arma-
ment, in which case they say that
the Japanese building program
should be modified.
General Pershing has joined Gen
eral Bliss in favor Of a cut in mill
tary estimates. He says:
1T Is gloomy commentary upon
world conditions that expenditures
several times greater than ever ber
fore in peace times should be con-
sidered necessary, especially when
the most rigid economy in govern
mental administration is essential if
we are to avoid national bank
ruptcy."
AS yet we have heard nothing
from the admirals of our navy.
Whatever their opinions may be,
they are forbidden to speak. Mr..
Daniels once told Admiral Fiske
"You cannot say that two and two
make four" But there is no reason
to doubt that the great body of the
officers of our navy agree with their
cousins of the army that it is time
to stop indiscriminate expenditure.