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The Press., 1920-05-27

racing along the logs of the sixth length now, keeping his footing some how, like a chamois. A great, peril ous, seemingly impossible leap from length to length-he was with her, held her in his arms.
 'The only chancel" he shouted above the grinding roar of the train. 'Leave it to me. Don't try to move 1"
 He picked her up like a child, bal ancing himself and making his way with cautious shuffling steps to the edge of the platform. There, with the girl tight-clasped to his breast, he waited; waited for the one chance. Then all at once he kissed her-and the next instant they were in the air. Peltier had jumped. ...
 A contractor from Boston had bought, cut and piled some hundreds of Christmas trees that he was to have shipped out over the log road. The market had broken. The trees were still there. Peltier remembered. And as he leaped for them he threw himself on his back-and Janice Greener escaped without a scratch. Peltier left the hospital in two weeks When he did 1t was with a warm joy in his heart, for Janice had written him: Come to me as soon as they will let you. Because, Dave dear, you are such a wonderful, valorous one that you are always going to be-my buffer"
The Press., 1920-05-27
SEEMS FLAW IN ARGUMENT
Matter of Food and Latitude, at First Plausible, WhI Hardly Bear
 Analysis.

Someone who does not seem to have much regular work to do has evolved an argument proving that a person should eat only those foods which are produced in the latitude in which he lives, remarks the Ohio State Journal. That Is to say, a citizen of this gar den spot of the world ought never to eat a lobster or a banana, a mackerel or a prune, but, instead and for in- stance, pork chop and pawpaw, a catfish and plate of boiled cabbage. The basis of this reasoning Is that the proper feeding of the human race was carefully planned in the first place and things which it would be good for people to eat under certain climatic conditions were placed right to their hand. The orange, for example, Is fine food for persons in warm eli mates, where 1t grows, cooling their blood and keeping their vital forces up to their work, but here, where 1t does not grow and therefore is not the natural food of those who live here, 1t causes all sorts of distem- pers in the rash physical structure that takes 1t in. The theory has been elaborated and set forth in rather plausible way, but, If the good Lord intended to limit us so, why were we given that sort of intelligence which has enabled us to develop our trans portation facilities to the point where we can get codfish as easily as pork chops and oranges as readily as boiled cabbage?
The Press., 1920-05-27

Permit US to present the De Veyra family.
 The Hon. Jaime c. de Veyra Is the Resident Commissioner from the Phil ippine Islands to the United States and has just been elected to a second term sioner he has seat on the floor of the American Congress, the privilege of taking part in debates, although no vote.
 Commissioner de Veyra has an inter- esting wife and four bright Filipino kiddies. The De Veyra family, individ- ually and collectively, constitute the best argument as to the tact and capa- bilities of Filipinos that the Philippine Islands have in Washington.
 The commissioner Is 100 per cent Filipino, a Visayan, and is one of the foremost leaders of the party in power in the islands. During American occu- patton he has been succeSsively gov ernor of his provinee member of the Philippine legislature, cabinet mem Der and executive secretary of the islands
 Like many statesmen of the Philip pines, he was originally newspaper man. He was one of the founders of El Nuevo Dia of Cebu, the first Fili- pino paper published advocating Phil ippine independence The paper came under the censorship of General Nc Intyre, and on the appearance of the first number the editors were left in the singular position of seeing every prominent article blue penciled.
 Mrs. de Veyra, like her husband, is a Hive wire" in the Philippines cause. She is the best known Filipina in America She is an interesting public speaker and is constantly giving illus trated lectures at womens clubs and other gatherings. Mrs. de Veyra is a publicity bureau all in herself and has put the Philippines on the map, so far as the women folk of Washington con- gressional circles are concerned.
 q find that the Filipino people have been much misrepresented in the Unit
The Press., 1920-05-27
Mlxup in Relationships.

Adoption proceedings before Judge Raymond Dobb presented complex situation that lawyers are trying to figure out, writes a Syracuse (N. Y) correspondent. James and Lucy LOat- we'll were born six years ago. Their mother, Mrs. Lucy Loatwell, wife of James Loatwell, died shortly after their birth. Their father married again and then Percy Mcdonald. brother-in-law of the deceased Mrs. Loatwell, adopted Lucy. Charles Sing CT. brother of the deceased Mrs. Loat- well. adopted Jimmie.
 Lucy must now call her own broth CT Cousin Jimmie. Her own father becomes Uncle Jim. Her hitherto Uncle Percy now becomes papa. While she will always revere the mem- ory of the departed mother, she must regard her maternal parent as a de ceased aunt, at least in the law. Her own cousins. the children of her adop- tive paren.s, become her brothers and sisters. and the same holds true of lit tie Jimmie. Lucy's now legal father becomes uncle to her own brother, while her stepmother she must ad- dress as auntie.
The Press., 1920-05-27
Will Use Rifles of Veterana.

Rines that were actually used by United States marines against the Huns In France at Belleau wood, Soissons, St. Mihiel, Champagne or in the Argonne will be issued to recruits who never saw fight when the big job just begun at the marine corps de pot of supplies at Chicago is finished.
 All the rifies used by marines in France have been turned in at the de pot to be refinished and repaired. So we'll did their bearers care for them that most of them can be used again.
 When they come out of the gunshop as good as new they will be issued to recruits, who will be inspired by the knowledge that they carry the same rifles that were used In the world war.
The Press., 1920-05-27
USE DOGS AS SMUGGLERS
Ing Liquor and Drugs Into the United Statea

Training dogs to smuggle liquor across the Rio Grande river Is the latest device of ingeniors minds of those who make a living by means of Illicit importation to the United States of liquor and drugs. That in- novation In line running came to light at Fl Paso. Tex. recently when a Mexican river guard shot dog smuggler" In the act of swimming the Rio Grande with four bottles of teQuila. . Mexican liquor of cactus distillation. tied across his back.
 The dog, as the story of the serv- ice to his master Is told by United States customs men. had been mak- Ing nightly trips between Juarez and El Paso with contraband goods for several months. The strange. but regular. actions of the animal first were noted by customs officers about two months ago. Beginning at two o'clock in the morning, the dog would begin his operations. Signal lights flashed by confederates in the gang of smugglers stationed on each side of the river always preceded the dogs trip across stream. Dsshing out of cluster of squalid adobe houses along the Mexican side of the river. the anf mal would plunge into the Rio Grande with his load.
 Emerging on the American side. the ''smuggler" always was successful In eluding pursuers. who often sought to lasso the dog. being loath to shoot an unsuspecting law violator.
The Press., 1920-05-27
LIGHTS OF IMMENSE POWER
Rays From Points on United States Coast Are Visible Seventy Miles
 Out at Sea.

The highest beacon light maintained by the United States for warning navigators Is at Cape Mendocino, Cal, 422 feet above sea level. It has a range of 28 miles.
 The brightest light and one of the most brilliant in the world Is at Navesink, N. J., on the highlands at the entrance of New York bay. It is 25.0OO.0OO candle power and it's glare has been seen from 70 miles out in the ocean.
 The largest lighthouse liens" is at Makapuu point, on the island of Oahu (Hawaiian group). Its beam at night brings first news to voyagers from the United States that they are near ing the mid-Pacific archipelago. It Is called a ''hyperradient," the inside diameter of the lens being about nine feet and that of the glass lantern in- closing 1t 16 feet.
 The lens of the Navesink light in- closes powerful electric arc. But, generally speaking. kerosene is the
The Press., 1920-05-27
Peace Hath It's Sorrows.

A woman's society, whose principal activity during the war was providing entertainment for the soldiers, was about to give dance. One of the women who had acted as chaperon meeting a demure miss who had ear nestly and strenuously thrown herself into the party and dance game, asked:
 Coming to the dance. Luella?"
 T think not" aswered Luella, with e sigh.
 "Why, what's the reason ?" asked the surprised chaperon.
 "I would have no one to dance with" said Luella.
 "All our boys are back" replied the chaperon. There are as many men as ever"
 ~Well," said Luella, i've could al- ways depend on the soldiers, but who's going to make those other men attendY
The Press., 1920-05-27

I ed States," says Mrs. de Veyra. II dc | not mean to infer we are perfect, for | we are not. My people have most ot the defects, I suppose, that other hu-
 mans have, but at the same time we are far from the people that many Americans have been made to believe
 Not only are we Christian people
 but our race has history that we are not ashamed of Throughout the Phil ippine Islands the people are now working earnestly to improve them, selves and their conditions so they will be prepared to take over their own af- fairs. We all love America for giving us chance to help ourselves and for having promised us our independence, which is one of the dearest desires of the entire citizenship of the islands," To American women whose ideas ot Filipinos have been founded on Sun day supplement descriptions of wild tribes, Mrs. de Veyra's gentle manner and evident culture have been a reve-
 lation. She is sought by women's clubs because of her charming manner as an | imprOmptu speaker on the subject
 nearest her heart-the women of her
 country.
 At recent Washington gathering
 she gave in perfect English a concise account of the work of a woman's club
 in Manila which supplies milk to the
 babies of the poor and trains mothers
 to care for their young children. She
 told of another woman's club whicl, has branches all over the Philippine Islands and which maintains day nurseries for the children of the work, ing women, provides Christmas cheer for the lepers, the insane and the con. victs. and gathers data to influence leg. islation for the benefit of Filipino wo men and children.
 The four little De Veyras, shown in the picture, having attended the pub
 lie schools in Manila, slipped right into
 the same grades in the schools ot
 Washington. Even little Mary, the baby of the family, speaks three Ian
 guages-her native tongue, Spanisl and English
The Press., 1920-05-27
FOUND NEW LAND OF GOLD
New York Mining Man Reports Rich Discoveries Made In the Mines
 of Colombia.

A new gold region has been discov- cred In Colombia, according to J. V. Priest. a mining man, who arrived at New York from Santa Marta, Colom- bia-
 MT. Priest said that some time ago he was told by a Frenchman. who said he was q government employee, of fabulous wealth that lay hidden in the mines of Colombia. Mir. Priest, ac- companied by his wife and c. L. Logue. a mining engineer, visited Colombia recently and spent his time in visiting various sections.
 After landing at Cartagna, Mir. Priest said, he and his companions went up the Msgdalena river 25O miles and disembarked, going overland through a mountainous country for 65 miles.
 At the end of the journey, Mir. Priest said, they found vast gold fields which had never been actively developed because of the absence of the proper machinery. He said this is accounted for by the lack of transit facilities, it being . most difficult matter to ship material of any kind to this point.
The Press., 1920-05-27
MILLIONS IN U. s. OWN RAILROADS
Wage Farmers Directly and h. directly Affected by Roads
 Solvency.
DIVISION OF SECURITIES
Mutual Savings Banks Owned Entire ly by Depositors Hold Large Amount of Railway
 Bonds.

Millions of thrifty Americans wh' have laid aside something for 'rain. day. are directly or indirectly owners of railroad securities This ownership represents not only individual invest ment In the railroads, but holdings of railroad securities by life insurance companies, savings banks. fire and ma rine insurance companies, benevolent associations, educational institutions, trust companies and State and Nation, al banks. A large part of the assets of these institutions depend on the sol "ercy of the railroads.
 The ownership of railroad securities among these people Is divided approx Iurately as follows:
 Individuals, numbering over
 100000, own outright about S1U,-
 0OO,0OO.0OO in railroad securities.
 Over 6OO,OO are stockholders with
 an average holding of S13.956.
 Life insurance companies, with
 nearly $2,OOO.OOO.OOO of railway
 securities.
 Savings banks, with 1O.OO00N'
 depoSitorS, own SS41 OOO,OOO.
 Fire and marine insurance com
 panies, casualty and surety com
 panies own total of $649, ,000. GOO
 Benevolent associations, col
 leges, schools, charitable institu-
 lions, etc, own s35O,OO0,OO0.
 Trust companies, State and Ma.
 tional banks own $S65, 100000
 
 the Association of Life Insurance Pres ldenss in 1918, 27.65 per cent of 'if's insurance companies assets were iii. vested in railroad bonds, and during the first half of 1919 the percentage of railroad bonds held by the life insur- ance companies was 26.25 of the total assets Of these companies.
 Interest of Wage Farmers.
 In addition to this widespread own. ership of equities of American rail roads by the people of the United States every wage earner who puts money into the savings bank has a di- rect interest in the soundness of rail road investment on account of the large part of the savings of men and women wage earners secured by the bonds which are bought by the savings banks
 A great many of these institutions are mutual savings banks which have no capital stock, pay no dividends, earn no profits for stockholders, and their entire property belongs to the de positors. Every dollar that the bank earns beyond the actual cost of doing business also belongs to them.
 The report of the United States Comptroller of the Currency for 1918 shows that 625 of these savings banks operated on the mutual plan had at the end of 1918 total deposits of $4, ,422,- 096, ,393.15 credited to 9,011, AGA depos- itors, an average deposit of $490.72. These figures covered mutual savings banks in IS states of the Union.
 The Comptroller's report gives the amount of railroad bonds held by mu- tual savings banks in the six New Eng land states-Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut-as $4O6, ,272, 166. The report of the State Superintendent of Banks of New York shows that the railroad bonds held by the mutual sav- ings banks at the end of 1918 in New York amounted to $361.711.334.
The Press., 1920-05-27
After Many Trials.

He took my ball." said a youngster when reproved for fighting with an- other boy.
 Did you try to get 1t from him peacebly?"
 "Yes'm."
 How many times did you try?'' II tried once. twice. thrice and force, and didn't get it ul.tii the last time."-Boston Transcript.
 Protect School Books.
 Cover the children's schoolbooks with either stiff paper or cloth so they will lasx the year and be in con. dition for the next in the family who will need to use them. gzs#
The Press., 1920-05-27
Had the Wrona Page.

A young miss of seven, who has memorized from numerous readings to her portions of her Chatterbox, pre- tends to be able to read. One evening she was seated upon the lap of guest affecting to read one of her fa- vorite passages relating to dolls. She was proceeding with great enthusiasm for several moments when the guest interrupted her by saying: But my dear child. don't see anything about dolls on that page."
 "I know It." she said promptly and sheepishly. "I was reading on the wrong page" Then, turning several pages, "It's over here"
The Press., 1920-05-27
Largest Organ.

It Is just about impossible to say where the largest organ in the world Is. because there Is always one being built that Is bigger than the last. There are many large organs In Eng land. and in the United States. Syd- ney, Australia, claimed. some years ago, to have the largest organ in the world, but. like ships, they are always increasing in size
The Press., 1920-05-27
1o,.ch Iron Instead of Wood

luveStiyation discloses the fact that in many districts of England the GUS tom of touching wood still prevails Just as i, did among past generations. In Scotland the superstition of the touch Is not unknown. although in their case it is iron that Is believed to possess the charm of averting evil. For in- stance. the fisher people of Scotland, who regard the sight CT mention Of a pig as bad omen, are accustomed to touch iron.
The Press., 1920-05-27
Form In Warm Climates

Potentially snow storms form in general region of warmth. strange as it may seem. The area of low baro- metric pressure or storm sea, comes whirling eastward across the Gulf states and then generally takes twist northward along the Atlantic senbonrd When sufficiently far north these warm air currents are chilled and the moisture becomes snow, very often being borne to the earth by the back draft of east wind
The Press., 1920-05-27
preferred illuminant for many light

houses.
 A lens frequently Is built up of glass prisms arranged in panels, the object being to concentrate the light into a beam of maximum brilliancy and range. Some lighthouse lenses are so arranged as to revolve. con- trivance of the sort, weighing perhaps 5000 pounds, being floated upon mer- cury and thereby turned so easily that a small bit of clockwork actuated by a 1OO-pound weight will operate it.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-10-01
OKLAHOMA MOVES.
(. UP PEG OR TWO.
Has Probably Moved Up
From 23rd to goth
Place.
PASSED THREE STATES
\ All State Had Equaled
Eastern Counties More
Would Be Distanced

vAsHTNGToN, Sen. s0.-okla-
,na. which was twenty-third
uone American states in popula-
r., in 1910. is believed to have
,.sed at least three states In popu-
.sop in a decade. These states are
k,rsas which ranked twenty-second
4, 1910. Mississippi which ranked
and Virginia, which
l,rked twentieth. II has closed up
.,ns, Of the gap separating 1t from
h,nnesota which ranked nineteenth
/, 1910. and Alabama. which ranked
! eighteenth -
4 u,a the rest OF the state shown
ma same gains as eastern oklahoma,
H. sooner state would have passed
M b. states named.
4 Mlahoma In 1910 had l.657155
|,onulatlon. Kansas had l,69O,949;
Eisissippl. l,797.i1s; Virginia. L.
Minnesota. 2.075,74S, and
i,sbama. 2.13S,09s. It is just pos
Ible that the oklahoma rural
E,rowih has been sufficient TO exceed
Alabama growth which was en-
rfrcy in Birmingham, and, IL 30, II
'Nu be in nineteenth place.
Here are the population figures for
f.g.1, nf nLIahnfn annntiaas
Arizona republican., 1920-02-20
COTTON HAS FLOURISHED
 IN MESA DISTRICT FROM
 DAY OF FIRST EXPLORER

the seed is available for cattle feed,
 as meal. and about 15go in actual
 weight goes into oil. This fact IS
 brought out in an article by J. H. Me
 Clintock on Big Returns from Long
 Staple Cotton,' as follows: From
 1000 pounds of seed come 800 pounds
 of meal, rich in protein and fat, 2oo
 pounds of hullS, 15O pounds of oil, all
 to be classed as food. besides 25 pounds of GnterS or SWeepingS of the seeds
 For the making of a 300 pound bale
 of cotton there must be ginned 1,SOO
 to 2,000 pounds of seed from the field One of the problems which has given the growers much trouble in the past
 has been the marketing of their crop, cotton even selling as low as Ii cents
 per pound. This condition has been
 steadily improving. the 1917 crop sell ing for around 45 cents, the 1918 crop about 60 cents and the 1919 crop around so cents. The Goodyear Rubber com pany used one-half Of the crop grown in the Mesa district, McF'addens have been large buyers and some consider
 able portion of the crop has been con- signed to Boston. The Fisk Rubber company have recently announced their intention to finance growers to the ex tent Of $25 an acre and to furnish seed at cost, their positive guarantee of at least 50 cents per pound for the 1920 crop.
 Mesa Modern Town
 Mesa is a modern town in every way, four strong banks, one of the finest school systems in the world, last year $125, 900 being voted for high school and this year S125.000 for an additional grammar school, it has twenty miles | of sidewalk, streets 120 feet wide, all | the streets in the business section paved with bitulithic, is contracting for several miles of this same pave
 ment in the resid>ctial district is building at this time over two hundred | homes and only needs a square deal and a chance to grow
Arizona republican., 1920-02-20
GROWERS POOL CROPS TO
 JET HIGH PRICE

Establishing a record for the price of cotton at that time, a pool of 11O bales made up by G. R. Finch, E. A. Redden and F. l.. Parry, local cotton growers, was sold at Tempe on the 18th of January for S7.27 cents pound. Four different purchasing agencies bid on the pool and the Martin Cotton company secured the lot, incidentally by so doing paying tie highest price ever received for cotton in the valley up to that time.
 With the upward movement of the cotton price from 61 cents to better than S4 cents at that time, the three growers assembled all of their available produce made up from the second and last pickings, and offered the aggre gate of 110 bales to the highest bid : der.
 The three growers have extensive interests south of Tempt and each one has realized an attractive profit from his investments in cotton the past season.
Arizona republican., 1920-02-20
By w. R. Stewart, President, Mesa
 Commercial Club

Commercial Club
 The cotton planted in the Mesa dis trict this year will be about 35,0OO acres. Mesa, with it's central location, 52O gin stands and banking facilities for handling the crop, all assist in mak- ing this the natural center. The rich silt soil of the Mesa district with the total elimination of root rot and other harmful diseases make the land in this neighbOrhood especially desirable. Good cotton land is selling now from s4OO to $500 an acre. Cotton has been grown in the Mesa district for at least 5000 years, in fact it has been clearly proven that the history Of cotton in this part of Arizona dates back to the stone age.
 With the stone hammers are found other stone implements which clearly point to their use in the carding ard spinning of cotton. The early Spanish explorers were presented with gifts made of cotton cloth by the Indians. These explorers tell us that the In dians were clothed with a. peculiar kind of cloth made from cotton, even going so far as to tell us that the In dian women wore dresses of cotton cloth which were 1ooped over the left arm leaving the right arm free.
 Cotton Contributes Much
 Of the S9,500.000, the value of the -hSSSt SiOp idSl year, tOItOu COHlIlDuled about s5.O00, 900. The Cotton Carnival. which the Southwest Cotton Congress held in this town last year, did much to advertise this district. The com mercial club has been in receipt of hundreds of letters which clearly show .he value of this form of advertising.
 Few people realize the food value of the cotton seed. As a matter of fact the seed is grown on 40 acres of cotton will produce as much actual food value as the same amount of land planted to wheat. About one-half of