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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-24

the legislature, it was announced yesterday. Members of the commit tee are Simon Bloom, chairman; Leo M. Andrews, J. H. Means, R. M Vance and City Attorney A. R. Coop CT.
 4 statement also was given out yesterday explaining the financial problem the city faces. This com mittee probably will recommend ac- ton to be taken by the Arkansas mayors on the municipal financial problem when the mayors meet at Little Rock in April, tho this has not been decided upon as yet.
 According to members of this committee and other city officials, the city is now receiving from the five mill general tax for the general fund S4s,000; from all other sour ces not exceeding $25 5,000, or total of S73,0OO
 The expense for water, lights and fire hydrants is SPA ,000. The ex- pcnse of the police department, car ing for prisoners, and incidentals. amounts to s23,O0O. The expense for the fire department, salaries. hose and upkeep is $22,000. The saaries of city officials reach $12,- 000 For emergencies, indidentals and depreciations, the sum is S5,000 The whole makes a total of S86, ,O00, or a deficit of $13,00O yearly
 Officials are calling attention to the fact that 1t will be impossible to reduce any of the above amounts, unless the city and property values are to suffer. Reduction in the po- lice department would mean more crimes they say, and water, light l and hydrants can not be reduced.
 City's Statement.
 1 The statement further said: "The i impression has gone out among tax payers that city officials and other organizations are agitating the in- crease of the tax by making assess ments on property 100 per cent. That 1 is not the case. To make it plain what is suggested is that relief be asked thru the legislature to in- crease the millage for the city the same as is being done for the schools to get an amendment to the con. stitution, permitting towns and cities that wish to, by referring it to the voters, to vote not exceeding F mills and that to apply only to tho city tax, and one-third of thi: amount to be placed in sinking fund to retire the indebtedness, tht balance to operate the current busi ness. Under this plan the city o, Pine Bluff would be out of debt then the people could vote as smal millage as would be required to op crate the city on.
 "This is very simple to under stand. It would not increase the ta, to any one over five mills. If thi mode of taxation was right for tn, schools, it certainly would be righ for the towns, in which the schools are located. It will be regrettabl' if Pine Bluff goes backward whil, it's institutions grow. The onl, way the state, county or city can b, maintained is by taxation. Forty five. years ago the municipalities were granted the right to operate o, five mills. Can anyone operat, their business or live as cheaply al they did then? Don't you realiz, that Pine Bluff has grown? If yo, have. then help her continue to grov by doing for the city what you dit for the schools the millag' to maintain your city. This can b, done"
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BLACK-DRAuGHT
 CLEANS THE LIVER
Enthusiastic Texan Tells of Bad Fix He Was In and How He Got Out by Using Black Draught
 Liver Medicine.

Holland, Texas.-Mr. J. N. Messer, who lives a short distance from here out in the country, says: "Black- Draught is without doubt the best liver medicine made. I do not hes itate to say it will do all it is re- commended to do and more.
 q am strong and healthy, but we all need little active medicine once in while, and Black -Draught is good enough for me. It does the work we'll and cleans the liver, car rying away bile, the easiest of any purgative l have ever seen.
 "Once, some years ago, had slow fever and my stomach was in bad fix, and Black-Draught gave me re- lief and helped me wonderful sight. It cured me of indigestion, and the bad feeling after eating. I keep itt for my family, they use it and have fo: years, and too, it saves doctor bills and is not expensive.
 A stitch in time saves nine, and most sickness is caused by bad !!rer A few doses of Black Draught fixes that, and don't see why peo- ?le don't use it, and they would see as l have, what a help it would be-
 Ask your druggist for Thedfori's Black-Draught.-(adv.)
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Catholics Combat
 BOlSheviSt Rule

Pittsburg. Jan, 23.--One hun dred and forty-five Holy Name So. cieties of the Roman Catholic church in the Pittsburgh district have launched campaign to stor the spread of Bolshevism among wage earners and to further Amer icanization. Literature intended tr establish closer relations between capital and labor is being distributed b,- the organization.
 Rev. Claude Geary. Dominican monk and leader in the campaign declared Bolshevism and Socialism can be handled but that problems confronted by capital and labor fust be definitely settled to bring peace to the world.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-24

them when they took arms in behali of the Allies against the Turks ana Kurds.
 Driven further and further into their mountain fastnesses oy re- pcated .invasions and massacres, the surviving 22,O0O of her people have been gathered together at Bakuoa' where they are living under the pro lection of the British civil and mi itary authorities.
 "T came to England much against my will" said the Lady Surma, who speaks English perfectly. "1 have never been to Europe before. But there was no one else to come. My brother, the late ruling Patriarch was killed by Kurd treachery; my younger brother, who succeeds nm is iii and another brother is sser,' ing. The people would trust nobody else.
 Ut may seem strange to you thai woman should be chosen for suct I difficult task, but it has been .hs m tradition of our nation that the sister of the heir should take the VOW of celibacy and act as he, brothers helper Gurlng HIS ieisA:
 The territory for which she ): pleading with the British govern ment is the oldest known to hlsto rians. It lies south of the Caucasu and north of the Euphrates and II he scene of many incidents in th' Old Testament story. The life O the people who have been Christian since the days of the earles teachers, has been one long story o persecution. eliminating in thel flight over the mountains 1 1917-1S.
 "Our villages were razed behin'
 ,s," said the Lary Surma, "all ou ] flocks have been driven away, ou
 money stolen and exhausted, ou
 books and documents burned. w
 Ire a people without & country"
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Woman in London
 Has Career That
 Reads as Romance

London, Jan. 23.-There is wom- an in London around whose story tho minstrels of old would have wove' many ballad, says the Daily New
 She is the Lady Surma di Bit Mar Shimun, sister of the ruling Pa triarch of the Assvrians, the present day remnant of the once powerful nomadic tribes which inha abite', Mesopotamia before the incursion of the Arabs. The country whence she comes has been identified b, some with the Garden of Eden.
 Travelling by steamer, by trail and on horseback, she has come al together some 5000 miles from z town 500 miles beyond Bagdad t plead. as the agent of her people for the restoration of lands lost t.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-24
KANSAS HAS MANY TRACTORS

Topeka, Kan, Jan. 24.-The latest figures made public by the stat, Board of Agriculture show there are s,6s9 tractors on the Kansas farms compared with 5,415 reported pre- viously, or an increase of more than 50 percent in the year. TIME
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-24
$6,00O of Drugs
 Seized in Arkansas

Fort Smith, Ark, Jan. 23.-With the arrest of two negroes here this afternoon, federal officers seized enough morphine from an automo- bile which the two men were driving to send the entire population of Fort Smith across the "big divide.'
 The morphine is valued at $6,OOO Over 800 bottles were seized. One of the men arrested is A. w. G. Sango, former negro banker at Muskogee, Okla.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-24
OFFICIALS OF CITY, STATE INCREASED MILEAGE IS NEEDED 
Pine Bluff Cant Operate Sue. cessfully On Present Sys-
 tenn, They Say

A special committee named at the recent get-together meeting of city officials, aldermen and members of auxiliary boards, is now working out financing the city until legisla- tive relief is obtained and prepar-
 ing details of the plans to obtain relief at the next regular session of
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-24
TO DASH TO POLE.

London, Jan. 23.-Dr John L. Cope, commander of the British imperial anarctic expedition which will leave England in the steamer Terranova next June for five years tour of exploration in the anartic says an attempt vii be made to dash to the south pole by airplane.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-24

Dr. Brunson's Famous Prescrip- ton was originally prescribed to overcome ailments peculiar to people of this section, and is especially val ,,able at this time. Manufactured by Renberger & Collier, Pine Bluff.
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-24

enormous holdings of stock in Aus trian industrials and mines.
 The government is evenly bal. anced between Socialists and Con- servatives and thus far has been un- able to give birth to constructive legislation looking to the solution of many internal problems facing the country.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-24
Papers Increasing
 Advertising Rates

Harrisburg, Pa.. Jan. 23.-Harris- ,urg papers are increasing advert!s- 'ne. rates and exercising vigorous circulation economies in an effort to
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-24

Wouldst avoid colds, grip and in fluenza? Then take Dr. Brunson's Famous Prescription 1-24-tf
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-24

1t is almost as easy to avoid colds IS to contract them. Use Brunson's Famous Prescription 1-24-tf
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-24

NEW YORK--Miss Lillian Jed. licka. student nurse at the Flower Hospital, gave her blood for trans. fusion when prices for blood jumped to $55. an increase of $3n aver the usual price. The hos. pital does a great deal of free work and was unable to meet the Thigh price of blood" Her vol , untary action caused other nurses to follow the example and the blood profitcers were left without Q market.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-24

meet the present news-print situa- tion. All papers have announced all
 ;norease in both foreign and local odvertising rates. For several years mast the Telegraph has operated on c no.return basis and allowed no
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-24

free copies except one vertiser. No circulation s sse' creases are contemplated sS time as such increases n.. '' last fall by the Patriot ,N' 's two years ago by the Telon,.Ss 'S
 Aeiegranh
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-24
SOLIDARITY OF c. o. P. IS THREATENED BY
 NEW TREATY MOVE

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-19
POT now BOILING
Ohio Political Center of the 1920
Presidential Race.
Harding and Cox Cohorts Plan
for Vigorous Week.

Columns, Ohio. July 1e.-Ohio, the
home Of the two presidential candi-
dates. today entered upon its first big
political week of the campaign.
Several members of the Democratic
national committee arrived during the
day. for their first meeting here to-
morrow with Governor Cox. the Demo-
cratic nominee. and Franklin d.
Roosevelt, his running mate. Tomor-
rows meeting is expected to develop
preliminary plans for the campaign
The committeeman will be entertain d
at dinner tomorrow evening by Gov
ernor and Mrs. Cox at the executive
mansion.
Members of the executive commit
tee of the Republican national COM
mittee will meet here Wednesday pre-
paratory to going to Marion Thursday
for the Harding notification cere-
monies. Henry NJ. Daugherty. Sena-
tor Harding's pre-convention cam
paign manager, will entertain the Re-
publican committeeman at a dinner
here Wednesday evening.
Thousands of persons are expected
in Marion Thursday when Senator
Harding, the Republican nominee, will
be officially notified of his nomination,
and to listen TO his address. which Is
expected to be the keynote of the Re-
publican campaign.
The notification ceremonies at
Marion will be held at Garfield park,
about mile and a half from Senator
Harding's home. Arrangeme nts have
been made for handling an immense
crowd.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-19
PROMPT ACTION NECESSARY.
Campaign Launched Today to Keep
Battery A in TOncka

Topeka may lose her Battery A. I'M
less prompt action is taken to keep
the old.-nnilitary organization in the
city. Hutchinson is seeking to organ
ice third battery and may win the
military unit.
Last, week The state Journal an
nounced that efforts were being made
to reorganize the famous fighting
unit. Battery Aswas a Topeka insti-
tuition nearly forty years. but was dis
banded when state troops were called
into federal service.
Topeka's enlistments, however, have
not been sufficiently heavy to insure
the military organization for the city.
On the other hand, Hutchinson has
completed organization of two bat
teries and is now making an effort to
enlist men for a third unit. Should
the town succeed before Topekas en-
listments are complete. there is little
chance to hold the organization here.
Lieut.. A. d. Ball today opened en-
listment headquarters at the National
hotel. He will continue to receive re-
cruits until the battery strength is
completed. A number of men already
have volunteered for service. Plans
for completion of the ranks were dis
cussed at noon today at a meeting at
the Chamber of Commerce.
The campaign to keep Battery A in
Topeka will be placed before the local
post of the American legion Wednes-
day>~night, in an effort to secure the
assistance of the post IN the project.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-19
TO REFUSE PACT
If President, Harding VIII Keep
Z. S. Out of League.
While Covenant Intact Will Re-
fuse Ratification.

Marion, o., July 19-Senator Hard
ing if elected president, will refuse to
take any steps toward ratification Of
the treaty of Versailles while the
League of Nations covenant stands in
tact, according to views of his friends
here today, after a careful study OF
the Republican nominees latest at
tack on the project.
The Republican presidential nomi-
nee, they declared, has decided to go
to the mat with Governor Cox over
the league issue. He is confident, they
said, that the country is opposed to
entering the league as it was formu-
lated at Paris.
Is His Second Attack.
Harding's attack on the league to-
day was his second within a week
both statements openly displaying
hostility to the covenant. Further
more, he has announced his opposi-
ton to virtually all President Wilson's
foreign policies, including his pro-
posed Adriatic settlement, his alleged
proposal to award Thrace to Bulgaria,
instead of Greece, and the Armenian
mandate.
Harding said he was glad to have
Cox and President Wilson express an
agreement on the league issue; He
took a view this would make a league
fight clear cut.
1.-The Republican party wants the
these iIl-considered commitments and
pledges it's administration against
them" Harding declared.
He also asserted heavy arTname nts
will he necessary to carry out these
pOlicieg
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-19
TOOK ADVANTAGE LEAP YEAR.
But Police Heard Girls Invitation to
Men Callers.

Even il this is Leap Year the To-
peka, police look with suspicion upon
a girl who calls up three different
men ir one afternoon and asks them
TO call.
Edith Crockett, former chamber
maid at a local hotel, is in Jail today
charged with taking advantage of a
supposed license permitting the wom-
en- to do the counting in Leap Year.
on Sunday afternoon she was heard
to call three men by telephone and
issue a cordial invitation to them 10
call at her room, according to the
police.
The officers called at her room and
found a man caller there. Also. $500
worth of clothes were identified as
clothing stolen at the National hotel,
officers said
Edith tainted and the officer car
ried her to the matron's room. She is
being held for further investigation.
The police say she came to Topeka
from Ottawa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-19
GIVES UP DUTIES

CONTINUED from Page ous.l
old, and for several weeks took care
of three babies less than a year old"
In her five years of service in the
charge of 625 children, of whom 127
were colored. "a were Mexican. SO
were orphans. and IS were less than
three years old.
IN December, 1914, when I under
took the work. the county commits
sioners allowed S25 a month rent for
this place (4O9 Harrison) and $3.50
the home by the county 1t was only
an experiment at the time and 1 was
willing to give my services to help
prove the need of a county detention
home. If at the end of six months
the home proves a necessity, we will
sioners told me But no change had
been made in the arrangement after
two years passed. In January, 1917,
I asked for $50 a month. The COM
missioners compromised and allowed
me $25 a month and agreed to fur
nish light fuG and water. Six months
later they allowed me additional s25
a month for my salary"
Gave Her Own Property.
The furnishing in the detention
home are almost entirely Mrs. Bundys,
as the home was formerly occupied
privately by the Bundy family. Six
iron cots with bedding were furnished
by Mrs. G, B. Thomas. Particularly
the bedding has been given hard use.
she said. 1t was not long before her
supply of bedding was nearly depleted,
and no new bedding was furnished by
the county, in spite of the matrons re-
peated requests for it. It was only
when the state board of health in
spected the home and made a report
that nine new mattresses. sixteen
sheets and eight blankets were pur-
chased by the county, Mrs. Bundy
said.
The kitchen of the home was not
provided with heat. Its only stove was
gas cooking stove and the furnace
did not supply heat to the kitchen.
In 1913 Mrs. Bundy asked the COM
missioners for a coal cooking stove,
thinking to supply cooking and heat
ing needs altogether. But the county
refused to buy the coal cooking stove
and Mrs. Bundy, at her own expense,
| bought a large secondhand heating
stove which answered. in 4 makeshift
manner for cooking also.
Il would not state these things if
were not interested in the welfare
of the home" Mrs. Bundy said. 81
sincerely hope that better provision
will be mdde and hope that people
will see the need of providing Shaw
nee county with a suitable home con-
| Quoted in a businesslike manner. II
| would be easier for the county COM
missioners to supply the needs of the
home with definite county appropri-
alton"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-19
Third Act of Wonderer Drama
Is Staged in Chicago Today

pense and trouble Of further court
procedure.
Rigid police investigation is tearing
away the last shred of aecency that
that he truly loved the wife he slew.
It has been learned, thru passionate
love notes. that even when he was
planning the killing of his wife and
unborn baby, he was making desper-
ate love to Julia Schmitt, a 17-year-
old girl. who was unaware he was
married. A batch Of his letters to this
girl fell into the hands of the detec-
tives, but too late to be presented to
the grand jury.
1t was brought out today, that
WandereT had gone out a number of
times with Miss Schmitt before the
murders and also after them. The girl
Identified him by his pictures in the
newspapers and turned over to the
states attorney the letters he had
written her. She says he always con-
Quoted himself properly and she con-
sidered him "a nice follow" In a let
ter to Miss Schmitt which Wanderer
had torn up. but which detectives
pieced together. he said:
IT hope, Julia. II you can go no fur
Their, that you will be a true friend to
me, You do not know how happy 1
was when I saw you. Some day I viii
tell you a whole lot more. The reason
I do not come up to your house is
that people would talk about me.
Goodnight, little love. and happy
dreams to you. From Carl"
Her own relatives and church people
who knew Ruth Wanderer say she was
a pure minded, cheerful girl. please
do not call her Ruth Wanderer any
more" they plead. Call her Ruth
johnson. That was the name we knew
her by Wanderer was her name for
few months only and it is a name we
| all wish to forget"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-19
New York stock Market.

Wall St, New York. July 19.-ST0CKS-
Rails began to sag when reports from Chi
caRo indicated that the railroad organiza-
ton probably would reject the proposed
award of the labor board. Active trans.
poFtati0n averaged one point decline and
Canadian Pacific lost two points. Reaction s
among oils became more extepSivegs1,an
Petroleum, Az. Steels and equipments also
made further resessions, especially Bethle-
hem, Republic and Vanadium, while motor
and related specialties lost their early ad-
vantage and considerable more. Foreign eX-
change was heavy, the London rate falling
almost two cents under last weeks final
quotations. Call money opened at per cent.
The trend of prices was distinctly down
ward at the sluggish opening of todays
stock market. Developments over the week
end. particularly the railroad industrial sit
uation were not of I hnpefui character and
the shorts promptly renewed their recent
selling taatics. Steels equipments and oils
were especially vulnerable. losses iii those
shares extending from large fractions to a
point. Motors and their specialties record
ed nominal gains and rails were irregular.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-19
TO TEACH AT ALMA MATER.
Robt. H. kingnan Comes Back 10
Washburn rs Professor

Robert H. Kingman of New York
will be head of the department of
zoology and physiology of washburn,
and B. B. Reed of Huron, SD. will
be instructor in chemistry, IL was ans
nounced today by Dean D. L. McEach-
ron.
Kingman was graduated from
Washburn with a bachelor of arts de-
gree. and later took his masters de-
gree from the University of Illinois.
He was professor of biology for two
years at Park college, ParkviIle, Mo.
and has been an assistant at Column
bia University. He is a brother of
Miss Ruth Kingmar, a member of
the Washburn faculty who resigned
recently. m
Reed has a masters degree from
Cornell college. Mount Vernon. Ia.
He has been an instructor In chemis-
try in the, State University of Iowa
and for the past year has been profess
sor of chemistry of Huron college.
Huron. s. D.
With the exception of an assistant
in the botany department to succeed
Thomas Tonkonogy, the faculty of the
Washburn science department Is now
complete.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-19
LIVE FOR WEALTH
Neglect of God Causes Social Unrest,
Rev. a. E. Gregory Declares.

THE country is filled with social
unrest which breeds revolution and an
archy. 1t is because men have for
gotten God in their race for wealth."
declared the Rev. A. E. Gregory of the
First Congregational church in an ad-
dress at the union church services on
the state house grounds Sunday night
The unrest is due to wealth, he said.
Men have forgotten God in their
race for wealth. Wealth has pre-
empted the great markets of the coun-
try, pre-empted our legislative halls
and is in the very church itself" he
said. There is too much interest in
automobiles, movies, fashions, air
planes; they have supplanted sane
Judgment and serious thinking Less
silk shirts, gadding. smoking, riding,
thrill hunting and amusement seeking
is necessary to Godlike thinking
There should be less playing and more
praying"
Nearly 1900 persons attended the
service.