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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-10-15
JAccuELINE GAY.

Posing as a man, Jacqueline Gay
obtained a marriage license four
years ago, married another girl and
lived as her husband until few days
ago. Jacqueline herself revealed the
fact in bringing suit against a
wealthy Philadelphia for selling her
drugs.
Miss Gay claims to be an Okla
homa Indian. She says she donned
mems garb to protect herself while
doing welfare work in the tender
loin. While so engaged she met Win
fired McVaugh, according to hei
story. and fell in love" with her
The two were married by Rev. VIII
liam B. Chalfont. Girls that Miss
Gay nursed in the tenderloin taught
her the naycotic habit. Last July po-
lice arrested her as a man when
they saw her receive a package sup
posed to contain drugs. The pres
ent suit is the outgrowth of tina
case. The man implicated is said tt
have forfeited his bail rather thar
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-10-15

poems sober do not wish to be de-
prived OF wilma beer and the finer
liquors. They want strong drink
confined to those who drink with
moderation or at least with ANITA
bility, and the peon is by no means
amiable. as a rule, when drunk.
The men who want a limited pro-
hibition, however, will get little sup
port from influential politicians. Te
politicians will either want complete
prohibition or demand that the
drinking places remain as they are,
with regulations closing them on
days when the masses are idle.
The peon has been the backbone
OF every revolution. The wild, reck-
less energy of these men. with moth
ing TO lose, has been the strength of
many leaders, who have remained
afield when 1t seemed humanity i'm
possible to avoid destruction or cap
ture. When the peon engages In a
cause he takes with him all of his
worldly goods, including his wife and
children. Bands Of bandits are NOV
ing tribes with more women and
children than fighting men. Even
military troop trains are moving
families. The soldiers take their
families with them, and also their
dogs, chickens. pigs and fighting
cocks,
It is because che peon is so essen
tial to the success Of any movement
that all appeals are addressed to him.
The sincerity Of these appeals, how
ever, Is strongly questioned.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-10-15
BY JAMES cRUIksHANk.
international News Service Staff
Correspondent.)

WILMINGTON, N. G.. Oct. is
Nearly 100000 American farmers
have purchased 100000 Canadian
acres this summer. They are trans
planting their food producing ener-
giles to Canada, to the Dominion's
profit and to Uncle Sans loss. Land
in Canada is cheap. The time Is
coming when 1t won't be cheap.
Acreage will cost as much there as
here. And then what Is the farmer
going to do? Where is he going?
The rest of the world excepting ST.
IBERIA and the Sahara already is
crowded"
The above paragraph is from an
editorial in d Minneapolis newspaper,
n community which feels the drain
of rural Northwest United States
more than most parts of this country
for 1t is from the West the chief
EXODUS of American farmers across
the Canadian border is taking place.
The Minneapolis newspaper in its
last sentence is entirely wrong. The
world is not overcrowded with the
| exception of Siberia and the Sahara.
| The South has vacant land, lots of 1t,
and capable of raising crops which
can not be raised in Western Canada
except in hothouses. The writer
knows about land values in Western
! Canada from first-hand experience,
First class, well-improved farms ad-
joining the chief cities of the Cana
| dian western provinces cost from
| 800 to $125 an acre. but at such a
figure excellent houses. barns, gran
| aries, wells and substantial wire
fences are included. Land which has
not been improved. or wild" land as
it is known in the Canadian West
can be bought for from $40 to $75 an
acre, depending on proximity to
large centers.
! The price may seem cheap to some
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-10-15
Master In Jail, Dog
= Is On Hunger Strike

SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. Is. (By IN
ternational News Service.)-After IT
years Of friendship together In the
woods and hills of the Sierras. David
McBee, 70-year-old prospector, and
his dog are separated.
Prison bars prevent dog and mas
ter from seeing each other. For
McBee Is in the county Jail at Sac
ramento and his canine Is at the jail
in Quincy. II happened when McBee
was arrested for lighting a fire in q
forest reserve. The marshal who
made the arrest also had to take
the dog. He brought the two to the
Quincy Jail. Then by a ruse the old
prospector was taken to the Jail at
Sacramento and the dog was left
alone.
And now the aged prospector Is
worrying about his dog. Seventeen
years in the lonely places with this
dog as his companion has implanted
an affection for the animal in the
heart of the man. The dog has gone
on a hunger strike because he has
lost his master. McBee has even vol
unteered to walk to Quincy to get
the dog and then return to Sacra-
mento again If permitted.
III not, give him a real funeral IL
he dies" said the old miner. McBee
is being held because he can not raise
his bail, and the date Of his release Is
uncertain.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-10-15
"HooCH" IS POWERFUL.

DENVER, Col. Oct. 15.-Home
brewed Denver "hooch" has a power
full kick. So says State Prohibition
Director Frank Medina. But it kicks
it's victims into q wooden box or into
locomotor ataxia, he adds.
The moonsfrine Of today, made and
bottled in 1920, is becoming worse
and worse" Medina says. Its pois-
onous qualities lie in the coloring
matter used and in the crude meth
cd of distillation, according to Me-
dina.
Recently he made test of a par
ticular brand of white mule" that
was confiscated in a raid. A heavy
ruler was dipped in the liquid and
within a few minutes the varnish had
been taken off.
State officials are keeping a close
watch on the activities of moonshin-
ers. who, it is said, are doing prof
liable business between Colorado an(
the Southern Wyoming towns.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-10-15
EXODUS Of JEWS
IN POLAND MOUNTS

GRAUDEN, Poland, Oct. 15.--An
exodus of Jews from Poland, which
has been steadily increasing for
many weeks. has reached such pro-
portion that Polish army officers say
it is certain that more than $4,000
soon will have left. Most of them
are bound for America.
The Poles. who are frankly and
bitterly hostile toward the Jew, make
no objection to their departure, but
they criticize what they assert is the
attitude of the joint distribution
committee of America, which has
many motor trucks and large sup
plies throughout Poland. When a
number of trucks and automobiles of
this committee arrived here the mill
tary authorities refused to permit
them to proceed or move about in
this area, saying accusations had
been made that these trucks were
carrying contraband over the Ger
man border under the protection of
the American flag and that there
was evidence the committee had as
sisted Jews who were liable for mill
tary service to leave Poland. Proof
of these accusations was requested
by the correspondent but it was not
furnished
The employee of the joint distri-
button committee in charge Of the
detachment Of trucks. here appealed
to American army officers in Grau-
denz to use their influence to have
the trucks released, but the officers
declined to interfere.
A French officer attached to the
French military commission here
said his government had adopted a
policy of eXpediting the departure
from France of the large number of
Jews going to America and that while
many of them would be content to
live in France, virtually none of them
would remain.
Polish officials say all of the Jews
in several towns and villages in Po-
sen, Poland, have departed, en- route
to the United States.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-10-15
WOMEN NOW HAVE
POLITICAL ARGUMENTS

URBANA, O., Oct. Is. (By Inter-
national News Service. )-Things are
livening up in a political way here.
Advent of woman suffrage is
credited.
The wife of a Democrat, a we'll
known Urbana society woman, visited
the wife of neighbor Republican.
A discussion of politics featured the
visit.
It wasn't long ~until the hostess
took issue with the Democratic ut
terances of her visitor. The heat of
the argument steadily mounted.
The~climax was reached when the
hostess, stepping to the front door,
ordered her guest to leave and never
return.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-10-15
MEXICO Is ALL AC0G
OVER DRY AGITATION
BY LOUIS p. KIRBY,
international News Service Staff
Corresnondent

MEXICO CITY, Mexico. Oct. Is
Liquor men in Mexico have become
alarmed by the steps toward prohibit
ton taken by the new government.
and are organizing to protect their
interests
The drinking places are now closed
on all holidays and from Saturday
at noon until Monday morning
From this II woulu be only q short
step to complete prohibition.
Owing to the spread OF Boishev.
ism among the peon classes, there
are many who favor plan TO abol-
ish the manufacture of the cheap
alcoholic beverages made from the
cacti. as a means OF preserving order.
but those who want to keep the
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-10-15
SA VS. FARMS OF SOUTHLAND
WILL LURE MODERN PIONEER

but consider what the land can raise.
Wheat Is the main crop. with oats,
barley and flax next in order. Twen-
~ bushels OF wheat is reckoned
very fair yield indeed. Prior to the
war that returned gross income
OF about SIS to $50 an acre. Oats.
BIZ riley and flax gave about the same
Er,>ss return. Western Canada also
rails - live stock. but feed must be
put l. , in the summer TO winter the
stock through a period Of six
months when the ground is covered
with snow. There is not mile
OF hard surfaced road in the Western
provinces outside the limits OF some
of the principal cities. The farm
crs have made money in western
Canada because most OF those who
are prosperous now bought lana nj
around 81 to $40 an acre. prior to
1908. are wealthy today because their
lands have greatly increased in value.
Consider the great difference In the
possible returns from farm in West
ern Canada and one in the South.
Less than a 320-acre farm is almost
useless in the western grain belt,
because only two crops Of grain can
he successfully raised without sum-
Iner following.
To acquire farm of 32O acres in
the western wheat belt OF wild land,
remote from a settlement, only to be
reached by miserable prairie trails.
will cost at least $4,000. To buy four
horses and less number is useless
because the season is short and the
field work must be done on a big
scale. costs another $500. Farm inn
PIGMENTS and buildings at the lowest
estimate will take another $4,000, oil
a total of $4,000 in order for the
farmer to be in shape to start tc
work. Then he plows his virgin
prairie in April or May, backsets i
in September. seeds it next spring
! and eighteen months after he frs
plcws gets his first crop.
With $4,000 any practical agricul
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-10-15

turlst can acquire as much land as
several men can cultivate in the
South, and on each acre of the
Southern land raise crops which re-
turn az great revenue as 100 acres
OF grain land in the western wheat
belt.
These are facts which can not be
disputed. The trouble is that the peo-
Pile outside of the South are ignorant
of the wonderful chance which is
awaiting them here.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-10-15
Tangled Roads Of
Europe Easy For
Women Of MYSterY

VIENNA, Oct. 15.-The swarm of
mysterious women who have made
their appearance in the capitals of
Central and Eastern Europe have be-
gun to attract the speculative atten-
ton of the Vienna newspapers.
Perfectly dressed and nearly al
ways of more than ordinary pulchri-
tude, they seem to travel unhindered
over frontiers where the average
traveller is treated as a suspect. On
crowded trains with the most limited
first-class accommodations. usually
taking a week to secure, they always
have the choice compartments at a
moments notice, and in hotels with
long waiting lists in Warsaw, Prague,
Vienna, Belgrade, Bucharest and 9TH
er cities, they find rooms waiting for
them.
They travel from country to coun-
try on smothed ways, and frontiers
present no terrors to them.
The newspaper belief is that they
are principally engaged in smuggling
of valuables and securities and for
eign moneys under high protection,
if they are not espionage agents or
possibly combining the two.
There is not a first class hotel in
this capital that has not its coterie Of
these mysterious persons who come
and go irregularly and who can be
seen by the traveller first in one city
and then another.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-10-15

Automotive Industries, true to it's
code Of industrial Progressiveness, Is
putrescence of automobile publicity.
Most of the bunk set forth has been
very bad. Too much Of 1t already has
been printed and conceptions of what
is printable are many and diverse.
But the motorist could say.
His nose knows.--Motor Life.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-10-15

Simple Bonnie met a Jennie, .
Nifty, tall and fair;
Says Simple Bonnie to the Jennie,
Going anywhere?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-11
FOOD CROPS ARE
 MUCH IMPROVED
By AssocIa..d Press

Chicago. July 10-Marked Improvement in the principal food crops of the middle
 west has been reported in the last few weeks. in contrast to unfavorable pros- poets earlier in the season which gave rise to some alarm. There is no danger that the country will starve this year" is the comment of J. R. Howard. presi- dent of the American Farm Bureau Fed eration, made on reviewing the situation
 President Howard reported that the corn prospect was now very fair. and that wheat was really better. Corn pro- duction promised to be little under nor. nal. but it was well cultivated and clean and would turn out well with good wealth. CT in July and August.
 While the wheat crop would not be normal, the crop condition was very fair As against lighter acreage there was heavy carry over. MT. Howard estimated that 90 per cent of last years wheat re- mained on Kansas farms today. In Kan sas and Oklahoma better wheat crop than last year is expected
 Oats was very short, and showed no im- orovement. MT Howard added.
 Crops are reported late
 North Dakota sends word of better crop conditions than for several years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-11
Thousands Cured By
 Drinking Mineral Water
The Famous Perlax Mineral Springs at Excel'ior Springs, Mo-, Make.
 Generous Offer to Sufferers,

Every year as many as 250. 900 people visit Excelsior Springs. Mo, to drink the wonderful waters found there. Invalids from all over the country. given up by their home doctors. find health and vivor in the mineral and curative agents com pounded far underground by Nature
 Probably the most famous waters are those found in the Perlax Mineral Sprina. and many thousands who have suffered from Gout. Rheumatism. Cons tipation. Liver and Kidney troubles and similar aii- ments have been cured by drinking it.
 So confident are the owners of the spring that this water will cure you that they offer to send $1 carton of Perlax Mineral Salts to anyone who will wr1re for it. When dissolved in water this is equal to ten gal Ions of Perlax Mineral water. Their offer is that it is to be pa.d for only if it cures. The person taking it is to be the sole judge and report results within thirty days time.
 If you suffer from any of the above dis eases write for carton today Send no money-just your name and address to Per lax Mineral Springs. 346 Perlax Bldg. Ex- 'elsior Springs. Mo.--Adv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-11

he has done as governor of Ohio About the very first big problem that con- fronted him soon after his inauguration in 1913 was the flood which devastated Dayton and the adjacent country The governor promptly became the dominant figure in relief measures. Then he mapped out and pushed through the leg islature plans for public works which have prevented a repetition of the great disaster.
 His first term abounded in important constructive work. He got through the legislature comprehensive system of state-aided highways, a compulsory workmen's compensation law, civil serv- ice for state, county and municipal em- ployes. a state budget system. com plete reorganization of the public schools Of the state, permission for three-fourths Of jury in d civil case to return a verdict, an eight-hour work day on all public contracts and a minimum wage and nine-hour work day for women. His scheme for controlling public utilities in- cluded law providing property revalu- ations as the bases for fixing rates, a provision for court appeal from deci- sions of the state public utilities conn., mission to the court of last resort with out delay, prohibition of any injunc- tion's being issued on a rate hearing without court investigation. and finally provision for uniform accounting sys- tenn to be applied to all public utilities.
 In all there are some fifty-two meas ures to which Governor Cox's admirers point with pride as his work while governor. They include labor legislation, business service, social service, educa- tion, agriculture and good roads.
 A few weeks ago Governor Cox out lined briefly some of his ideas on na- tional needs during a speech before the Iroquois Club in Chicago. Here are a few of the things he said:
 There is some hystera over the sub ject of active elements in this country that are menacing to the government. There is no danger in the situation. all though it might easily be aggravated if the governmental policy of restraint and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-11
NEW NASH FOUR WILL
 COME OUT NEXT FALL

With factory buildings nearing completion and much of the machinery
 installei, indications are that the new l Nash Four will be in production in 1 the early fall The new Milwaukee ! factory of the Nash Motors Company l is thoroughly modern n construction ! ahi It is being equipped with mach'n- cry for volume reduction of cars of value
 The factory. when ccmpletei. will comprise a power plant, foundry, ma chine shop. drop forge department.
 pooy building plant and sheet metal
 plant. The cost of this plant will run
 into the millions and 1t ultimately
 VIII be as great manufacturing i'm
 stitution as the parent factory at Ke-
 Dosba
 Ihe four-cylinder car factory of the Nash Motors Company is a concrete il. Iustration Of the growth of the com pany during the past four years. At the main factory in Kenosha. every men Of available ground is being uti!- ized in the production of six-cylinder cars and truck, and a number of new buildings have been added during tho past twelve months
 With the competitor of buildinps and the installation of machinery in the Milwaukee plant. production of the Nash Four will begin and sample cars It IS expected, will be in the hands of all Nash dealers before snow flies.
 The straight line" production method. wherein each operation fol- lows another in logical sequence, will De carried out in the Nash Milwaukee plant. This method has been followed at the kenosha factory of the Nash Motors Company since the plant was | taken over four years ago by MT. c. i w Mash and his associates It makes | possible volume production with max | mum efficiency, is responsible for | the elimination of 1ost motion" and | consequently Is large factor among rose elements which contribute to low overhead
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-11
DORTS WINNER FIRST AND SECOND PLACES
 IN RELIABILITY RUN

Dort cars won first and seco 10 places in their class in the Sacramento Lake Tahoe reliability and economy run on June 25. Authorities state that this was the most strenuous road con test staged in California, with very hot weather prevailing and much fife to contend with
 The route was one of 260 miles, over the high Sierras, with grlling grades reaching an altitude of 5000 feet from a start at 50 feet.
 There were 24 representative cars entered and 21 made the run.
 First Dort, averaged 20H miles to the gallon of gasoline. second Dort IS 2-3 miles.
 Tie finishing third averaged nearly three miles less to the gallon.
 First Dort made perfect score second Dort scored 997 points out of a,' ssible 1000.
 Except at official controls. neither Dort stopped it's wheels
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-11

From printers devil to President That IS the ambitious road James M Cox has set out to travel. and now he has got as Tar as inducing the democratic party to put it up to the voters of the nation to decide next November whether they want to send Gov. James M Cox to the White
 House or prefer Senator Warren G. Harding. In either event Ohio furnishes
 the next President Just as the repub- iican candidate for President was born In the Buckeye state fifty-three years | ago and has lived there ever since, so | also the democratic candidate for Presi- dent was born there fifty years ago and has made his home there always His birthday is March 31. His birth place IS humble little farm near Jack sonburg, in Butler county. His parents were farmers. his father of English de- scent and his mother of German. He worked his way into the Amanda town snip high school. selling newspa pers and working as a printers devil in a country printshop to get by. The smell of the pripter's ink made hit with youthful Jimmy Cox and he set out to learn the trade of journeyman printer Then he graduated to newspaper reporter and got job on the Cincinnati Enouirer. of which he soon became one of the minor editors.
 INTO POLITICS AT 24
  came when he was 24. He got a job as secretary to democratic Ohio congress- man. with chance to earn $1O0 a month and live in Washington part of the time This job he kept for four years, when he scraped enough money together to get control of the Dayton News. Five years later he secured the Springfield Press Republic, changed it's name to the Springfield Daily News and has operated both papers with marked success under what is known as the News League of Ohio.
 The public life of the democratic can didate for President began only twelve years ago. In 1908 he ran for Congress in the Third Ohio district and was elect ed by 1s,0Oo Two years later he was reelected. In 1912 he declined another renomination and sought instead the governorship of Ohio on the democratic ticket. He won. Two years later he was defeated for reelection as governor by Frank B. Willis at the same election when his present rival for the presi- | dency, Warren G. Harding, was elected to the United States Senate from Ohio. That was in 1914 In 1916 Cox beat Gov l ernor Willis and moved back to the gov | ernors mansion in Columbus. In 1918 l Governor Cox performed feat that ha, | never been done before in Ohio politics, | except once. He was reelected for a | third term as governor. His only pred | ecessor who ever accomplished that l stunt was Rutherford R. Hayes Gov | ernor Hays was promoted to be Presi- 1 dent and Governor Cox's friends long have been predicting that he will suc- ceed in initiating Hayes example
 HAS BEEN MARRIED TWICE
 Governor Cox married twice. His first wife. whom he welded in 1893. was Miss Mayme L. Harding of Cincinnati He her while he was renorter | His second wife was Miss Margaret P. Blair Chicago girl, whose home was '45 Lincoln Parkway. He married her three years ago shortly after he had been elected governor for the second lime.
 Governor Cox's record of public achievements Is confined largely to what