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The Crittenden press., 1920-06-04
'LOCAZ
HAPPENINGS

Ted Frazer spent Sunday in Prince
ton.
Mr.. c. W, Grady spent Monday
inPaducah.
Two Houses and lots for sale. See
r. II. Enoch.
Two Houses and lots for sale. See
X. II. Enoch.
Mr.. Rap Oliver of Frances was in
town Wednesday.
Hon. T. G.. Bennett was in Hop
kinsville Sunday.
j. II. Nimmo, the Watkins man
Telephone 2S9.
Dr. o. F. Lowry of Tolu was in
town Monday.
Circuit Clerk d. A. Lowry spent
Sunday in Fredonia.
Esq. L. +. Waddell of Levias at.
tended Fiscal Court Tuesday
Raymond Moss of Titusville, Fla
is expected home Wednesday.
Now is the time TO buy summer
suit from Taylor and Taylor.
Mr.. S. II. Matthews of Frances
was in this city Wednesday.
Miss Naomi Asher is visiting Mrs
Oneal in Bells Mines neighborhood
Foster Lee Threlkeld of Morgan
field spent Sunday with friends here
Mrs d. A. Lowry spent last week
at Melissa H., the guest Of her sis
ter.
Mrs. l.. f. Guess and daughter
Marie, spent Sunday with friends a
Tolu.
Esq. Chas. T. Riley Of Tolu was
in town Tuesday attending Fisca
Court.
Miss Frances Gray was the CUES
Of Mrs. Oscar Letcher Of Henderson
Monday.
Miss Carrie Ainsworth Of Ford
Ferry spent Monday in the city will
friends.
Master Richard Brown. of Tom
is the guest Of his uncle. Mr.. l.. +
Guess.
Mr.. Neil Guess spent Sunday wit
his grandmother, Mrs. Sallie Cues
at Tolu.
Esq. C. +. Truitt of Bellies Mine
was in town Tuesday attending Fis
cal Court.
Judge and Mrs. J. W. Blue hav
returned after two weeks visit i
Oklahoma.
Grady Waddell of Salem attende
the annual school banquet Tuesda
night.
Mr.. Louis Turner Of Sturgis
the guest Of DR.. +. W. Num- an
family.
Miss Eva Yates left Thursday fo
0wenshoro, where she will Wis
friends.
Rev. W. b. Yates left today fC
Marquette, Neb., where he will
in meeting.
Miss Virginia Flanary and Mis-
Elizabeth Rochester returned Sun
day from Louisville.
Rev. +. l.. Mcdowell will supp
the pulpit at the Cumberland Pre-
byterian Church, preaching first al
third Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. II. Harman al
children. Frank and Ruth, Of Kno
vile. Tenn, are the guests Of "
b. Yates and family.
= Mrs. o. S. Denny left Tuesd'
with her son Gilbert for Rochest
MINI, where she will have Gilbe
examined by Mayo Bros,
Mr.. +. r. Perkins Of Detroit W
here making his parents Mr.. al
Mrs. S. B. Perkins a visit, he h
a good position in Detroit.
Mesdames W. o. Tucker and \
V. Arnold and Miss Viva Shuttl
worth, accompanied by Mr., Err
Wright went to Central City Sund
to drive a car to Marion.
The Crittenden press., 1920-06-04
uNvEIL MONUMENT

The monument Of Irwin Davis will
be unveiled at Crooked Creek Sun
day at 800 p. M. All the camps
In the county are invited.
The Crittenden press., 1920-06-04

atives and friends in Marion the first
Of the week. /
Mrs. Cora Letzinger Of Providence
is the guest of her sister. Mrs. Sam
Gugenheim.
Messrs. Virgil Threlkeld, Ira
Pierce and T. J. Sleamaker were in
Paducah Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. j. Wiring at
tended Decoration exercises at Fy-
mes Chapel Sunday.
Mrs. H. F. Hammack spent the
week end in Evansville with her
daughter Mrs. Galen Dixon.
Mrs. George C. Gray spent the
week end in Henderson the guest of
Mrs. John Hodge.
Rev. W. B. Yates had the mis-
fortune to lose one Of his fine jersey
cows Tuesday night.
Miss Ruth Travis left Friday for
Bowling Green where she will attend
the West Kentucky Normal.
Miss Forest Hammack is spending
this week in Evansville with her sis
ter, Mrs. Galen Dixon.
Mr.. John W. Blue, who has been
a student at Kentucky Military In
stitute has returned home.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. o. Carnahan
spent Monday in Paducah attending
the Shriners celebration.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maurie Num-. who
are spending the summer at Tolu,
spent the week end in town.
Mrs. Roy Waddell Of Salem spent
the first Of the week as the guest Of
her brother, Mr.. Ernest Butler.
Mrs Roy X. Waddell Of Salem
visited her brother Ernest Butler
and family Sunday and Monday.
Master Robert Walton of Louis
ana arrived Wednesday to spend the
summer with DR.. F. W. Num-.
Mesdames T. C. Bennett and T.
+. Harris returned from a visit to
Mrs. II. A. Haynes, Deland Fla.
Mrs. George Eady Of Louisville.
arrived Wednesday to be the guest
Of her mother, Mrs. T. j. Num-.
Mrs. j. R. White Of Morganfeld
was called to the bedside Of her
mother, Mrs. A. j. Duvall who is
very i'll.
S. B. Perkins is visiting relatives
in Greenbay Wis, his son f. r.
Perkins accompanied him as far as
Chicago.
Messrs c. s. Num-. W. d. Can
nan and f. l.. Harpending attended
the Shriners celebration in Paducah
Monday.
Mr.. Robert Walton Of LOUISIANA,
arrived Tuesday and will spend the
summer with DR.. +. W. Num- and
family,
Mrs. l.. I. Crider who has been
in hospital in Evansville for three
weeks returned Friday. feeling much
better.
Mrs. Ira Bennett and Jas. Lowry
of Fredonia attended the Decoration
Day services at Mapleview Cemetery
: Sunday.
Miss Virginia Guess has returned
home from Blackwell, Oklahoma
where she spent the winter with her
Aunt.
Capt. W. B. Wilborn Of Fords
Ferry spent the first Of the week
with his brothers, r, NJ. and b. l..
1 Wilborn.
Mrs. Edith Cromwell Of Henderson
, who has been visiting her mother fol
the past three weeks returned hom'
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Cook Of Liv
ingston county spent the first Of thu
week with his parents, DR.. and Mrs
10. c. Cook.
Mrs. C. r. Newcom Of Owens
boro and Mrs. j. F. Dodge Of Stur
5 is are the uests Of their sister, Mrs
4 h. l.. Moore.
Mesdames Hurt Yates and Georg
Orme and Miss Virginia Blue spen
Thursday in Mexico the guests O.
: Mrs. Runk.
, II. +. Wilborn was in Paducal
Monday attending a meeting Of Re
publican County Chairmen OF tn
: First Congressional District.
The Crittenden press., 1920-06-04

Mrs. 4. l.. Harpcnding left Sat
urday for Huntington, W. Va.
where she will be the guest Of her
brother. Rev. Chas. Lear.
The Crittenden press., 1920-06-04
STRAND THEATRE
Friday June 4th
Fannie Ward


"OUR BETTER SELVES"
And Lonesome Luke comedy.
News Pathe service will be pre-
sented each Friday including
a comedy.
Saturday June 8
Madge Kennedy
LEAVE 1T TO SIMSON"
also comedy
Tuesday June 8
Tom Mix
THE SPEED MANIAC"
A whirlwind of action from
start to finnish also
MUTT and JEFF
Thursday June 10
JACK PICKFORD
THE LITTLE SHEPHERD
OF KINGDOM COME
A drama of Kentucky hills
and southern chialry, romance,
love and adventure from the
book by John Fox, Jr.
a a q. a q. a a a. a. a
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-19
The Reason Shoes Are High;
An Incident in Extrauapance

ficult to comprehend, in the face Of
these facts. how officials Of the ad-
ministration in power expected 100,-
100000 people in civil life to procure
the necessary leather for shoes.
$4,000 Branding Irons.
AS above stated. the war depart
ment owned during the war 391 900
hprses and mules. 1t was decided
that these horses and mules must be
branded. The testimony TAX en- by the
committee shows that in September,
1918, a representative of the war de-
partment entered into a contract with
Henry Moss & Co.. OF New York, for
$4,000 branding irons. This was one
branding iron for every two horses
in the army. The contract required
that these irons should be made of
copper, which was both scarce and
expensive.
A Transaction in Copper.
The contractor purchased 1882
pounds Of copper. which was 10000
pounds more than needed to make
the irons, and officials Of the COM
pany stated that they paid 1914 cents
per pound therefor. The war depart
ment paid the company 3sh cents
per pound for all this copper. and
then Immediately sold 1t hack to the
company for II cents per pound. We
won the war without branding the
horses and mules because no brand
ing irons had been delivered at the
time the armistice was signed. But
the records Of the war department
show that officials Of this administra-
ton compromised the claim of this
company by paying them $4,000.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-19

(Showing how the administration
ordered 100000 more hides than the
u. g. produced s-nd equipment for 2.
100000 horses when the war depart
ment had but $4,000 horses-add a
million sadles and don't miss the pur-
chase of a branding iron for every t
wo horses.)
Our people are complaining about
the high cost of shoes, yet when we
examine the ties timony taken by the
committee on expenditures In the
war department we wonder that
shoes are not today infinitely more
expensive. At the date Of the armis-
tice we had 100000 men under arms
while we had more than 100000
people engaged in civil life. The
testimony taken by the committee
shows that to have filled tho orders
made by tho ordnance branch Of the
war department for leather goods for
use in the army would have required
300, 900 more hides than the sum total
of all the hides produced in the Unit
ed States. The testimony further
shows that ths war department had
for use in the army $4,000 horses
and mules, and yet the records of the
ordnance branch of the war depart
mcnt ordered for use upon these
horses and mules s45.000 saddles and
over 1000, 900 sets OF double harness.
which was enough to cover more than
100000 horses at one time. The
war department purchased 1,6s7.1s7
horse brushes: 2,029,41 nose feed
bags; 1,14s.s6I horse covers; 2,S50,S53
halters: and I'LL of this equipment to
be used on so 900 horses. It is diff
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-19
THE DRUNKEN SAILOR oUrDoNE.

The committee reports that $11B.-
194,s74, the cost Of the Mussels
Shoals nitrate failure was wasted:
that It produced no nitrates prior to
the armistioe and contributed noth-
ing toward winning the war.
Tho committee recommends the
sale Of the offices built at Sheffield
at . cost Of s1s.ooo.ooo. These were
homes and offices built for officers.
The committee declares that the
conduct Of Col. Joyce. head officer
"in approving contracts was such as
to merit the severest censure.
In another column on this 1'age
the story Of million saddles, . mil
lion sets Of double harness and OF
branding irons is an interesting and
Aggravating incident La tina history
Of the dsbauch Of extrayagance. A
million sets Of double harness, 4
million saddles for $751; 900 horses and
Z branding iron for every two horses
are items that interes. the taxpayer
and the bond buyer.
The figures given in the articles de-
noted are from the committee report
and made public IN . resume by
Congressman Newton OF Missouri.
They assist to explain the high price
Of shosa and leather necessities. It
II one incident In q Wild and reck-
less orgy Of extravagant and Needless
waste Of public funds and win be
followed In publication on this page
Of similar Incidents and instances Of
utter wasts--if not worse than waste.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-19
speak UP For cibson.

we the republicans OF Adams
county In convention assembled,
hereby endorse the candidacy Of Ben.
]. Gibson for the Office OF attorney
general OF Iowa.
l. He IL q lawyer of unquestioned
ability. one Of the leading attorneys
OF southern Iowa an attested by the
endorsement Of practically the entire
bar Of southwest Iowa, and BY law
yers from all parts OF the STATE.
Q. We feel that with the code re-
vision coming on with its many
problems. demanding as 1t will,
ability. sanity. and honesty In the Of
fice Of attorney general. that the
people Of lows should nominate and
elect man whose ability and ex-
perience will prove Of value to the
state. In Captain Gibson We prese,S
such candidate.
s. His experience In the state sen
ate should especially qualify him for
the work. His record there stamps
him a. man who win stand Tor
sane. clean. honest government in
Iowa. -
I. He has always been patriotic
citizen. He was connected with the
national guard for years. Was thru
the Mexican border campaign,-sA md
in the world war service.
5. His record AZ county attorney
is known to all our people, It was a
record Of economy and efficiencyi
8. We believe that he will, it
nominated and elected. conduct the
office Of attorney general with strict
integrity alike Of the large interests
Of the state end the rights and In
terests of her humblest citizens.
Adopted at the Republican County
Convention. April II, 1920. Co.
Claude NJ. Stanley. chairman: @. w.
Gray. SECRETARY; Senator Dans w.
Turner. COMMITTEES on resoludoAss
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-19

genius. Napoleon was u wonderful
executive. At first his personal add
ministration was magnificentIy ef-
ficient. But even the Titan wearied.
The lean Napoleon grew fat a shade
indolent left decisions to his secre-
taries. After 1907 his administration
deteriorated.
Lenine and Trotzky, at the sum-
init now of their capacities and en-
thusiasm, are not equal to their task.
Presently they will be even less equal
than now. Their successors will be
their interiors almost certainly.
No man 10 equal to such task az
10 imposed on monarchs, a. would b
imposed upon the socialist captain.
Free men, governing. do far bet
ter in the long run. A. society run
on individual iniative is healthier and
more enduring than one of any other
sort.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-19
Ripping Rhymes
By WALT MASON


a
wonder oh we'll wonder booming
nced with bill
didn't
it's
annoy;
the
the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-19

all pleasure riding, and the touring
car would disappear from the roads.
Tho United States may never face
such q calamity, but 1t is headed for
gasolene prices that will restrict con-
sumption to those who can afford to
indulge in luxuries. The cheap fiiv-
yer that put the automobile within
the reach Of the humblest il no small
factor In the exaggerated gasolene
consumption that Is working to make
automobiliny once more preroga-
tive Of the wealthy. Instead Of the
high cost of living the great problem
OF the future promises to be tho high
cost of fiivvins.-Norfolk, Va. Pilot.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-19
o,utioa came--but with a difference

olutiop came-but with q difference.
The national assemblies not function
ing, small committees assumed pow
er. Carnot, the great war minister,
the creator OF the modern science Of
war from whom Napoleon learned.
saved France from invasion by con-
scription. But his CONSUMPTION was
military. T,ae bolshevist consorip-
ton is both military and economic.
Lenine today transfers from one
task to another battalions Of labor
ers, exactly as Trotzky may shift his
soldier battllions from the Siberian
to the Polish front. The peasant. the
artisan or the clerk Ii subject to or
der. precisely a. q soldier 10, sent to
plant potatoes on land cultivated by
the state, to build q railway bridge
zoo miles away, to tend machines in
q city factory he never saw before.
The Russian unit Ia become an eco
nonlic factor to be used to plug q
hole here. to speed UP production
there. He has surrendered all Volt
tionsand fs obedient to q direction
wiser than his own. His status is
that OF the horse and he is fed, wa
tered, STABBED like q horse. The man
agement mean to keep him fit for
labor, II they can. They can't al
ways, no more than general in the
field can always feed his fighters as
he would wish.
Socialists may imagine . voluntary
Industrial army enthusiastically en-
gaging in their tasks: but the prob
lem Ia 90 huge and complicated a.
to demand q cooperation to be had
only by discipline and OF mass-man-
euver.
Theoretically. industry so ordered
and diree ted might provide the con-
scripted worker his rations, as pro-
vender is furnished 70 the horse by
its owner, az the slave down south
was we'll kept in order to be made
profitable. Theoretically, q con-
scripted society directed by its ablest
nlen might provide better keep all
around than the present Individual
scramble system. Practically. 1t
ygouldn't-and for reasons that are
human.
The st,cialistic unit, relieved from
the anxiety for his keep that prods
him with activity now, will act an
any other slave has always DONE
do as little as he could and have to
be driven by his boss. Lenine now
shoots industrial slackers just as
Trotzky does Sinking soldiers. 1t is
necessary. The sociaiistic group Of
:dictators sooner or later will abuse
their power and decline in directive
efficiency.
Socialism can not be anything but
disguised social despotism. Lenine
and Tr,tzky perforce became despots.
They elect to be benevolent altho
actually their intended benevolence
may work pnalevolently. Theoretical
Sly, benevolent despotism ought to
furnish the best government. It has
done So only rarely, when the despot
happened to be an administrative
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-19
ObnBurrou8bs'
, s, Nss'':s:::

1. How can q skunk be safely
carried?
3. What Ii the best way to
handle bees?
8. Is the cuckoo popular with
other birds7
Answers TO Yesterdays Questions.
l. Does environment affect the
color Of fish and animals2
Thru the action OF the principle of
environment water animals will be
water oolored. the fish In tropic seas
will be more brilliantly colored than
those in northern seas, tropical birds
and insects will be OF gayer hues
than those OF the temperate zones.
shore birds will be shore tinted,
Arctic life will blend more or less
with Arctic SHOWS.
.. Can q turkey see q hawk before
q man doesf
The mother turkey with her brood
sees the hawk when It 10 . mere
speek against the sky: she IL, In
her solicitude for her young, thinking
OF hawks, and 10 on her guard
against them. Fear makes keen her
eye. The hunter does not see the
hawk till his attention 10 thus called
to 1t by tho turkey. because This In
terests are not endangered.
8. What queer habit Of replanting
itself has the fawn lily7
The fawn lily forms . new bulb
each spring by sending out q big
tap-root, that bores down into the
ground and plants a new bulb deep
er and deeper each season till the
required depth Of six or eight inches
is reached. When the ground
Is SO hard that the pioneer root oan
not penetrate It, II wAnders in loops
over tho surface and forms the new
bulb no deeper than the old one was,
and keeps this habit up spring after
spring, sroping it, way blindly about
over the hard surface.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-19
HANDY DIRECTORY
OF TIRE
] MASONIC TEMPLE
Masonic Meetings
Visitors Always Welcome.

MARSHALL LODGE NO. 1os, A.
r. "A. M, Friday, May 81, at o'clock
sharp. First degree. G. G. Jennings,
yN.sM.: John w. Wells, secretary.
S sIGNEr CHAPTER NO. So, R. A.
lM., Thursday, May 20. p. m. Royal
Arch. Frank T, Nokes, H. p; John
nv. Wells, secretary.
{ KING SOLOMON COUNCIL NO.
10 stated assembly: May IT, busi-
ness session. o. G. For. master;
John ~. Wells, recorder.
coNcLAvEl ,T. ALDEMAR COM
MANDERY Nc. 30, Tuesday. May
IS. S 8. IA. Business session. Clyde
II. stewart. c.,mnaander: John w.
wells, recorder
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 81 o. ..
IS. Special meeting Wednesday, June
2. at 8, for initiation. Mrs. W. ].
Richards, ". H., Ars. Archer Wal
ton. secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-19
MIDDLDMEN ON TRIAL.
GCedar RAPIDS Republican.


The middlemen were necver more
seriously on trial than they are at
the present time. They should prove
to the world that they exist for a
proper purpose Al, d that they are
part Of the service that the world
needs to have rendered. II they i'm
agine that they exist to get what
they can out Of the world, it may
profit them for the moment, but it is
likely to injure them in the long run
The middle men are in fact on trial
and it 10 up to them to prove their
right to exist. There was never a
time whom they needed more to get
together and talk over what Is for
the common good. and not merely
what IL for their good. The radical
laboring men of tho country who
have been thinking only of what they
could get have injured the cause of
organised labor, in some places,
seemingly beyond repair. The middle.
men need to look out that they do not
go thru the same processes. over
reaching and greed may profit a man
or class for q while. but they are
dangerous in the long run. No wise
man figures merely what he can get
out of q given situation, but he fig-
ures on doing tho things that will
serve him thru a series Of years and
the only things that so serve are
those that are right.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-19
High Cost Of Fiivvins Grows.

The federal bureal Of mines warns
the country that before another sum-
mer rolls around there may be an
actual shortage of gasolene-not
higher gasolene prices. for that Is ex-
pected as q matter Of course, but an
actual deficit. The bureau deduces
this from the fact that while the es-
timated increase IL gasolene produce
ton last. February over that Of Feb
ruary, 1919. was II per cent, the es-
timated increase in the number Of
automobiles and truclrs In use this
year il Is per cent. Improved manu-
featuring processes, the bureau be-
lieves, will increase the gasolene
yield, but will be unable to keep pace
with increased demand. Il Is bad
news for motorcar owners, but It
might be worse. Naly's gasolene
plight Is SO critical that the govern
ment Is considering en- edict forbid
ding the use Of petrol for any but
commercial purposes. Under this
edict there would be q sudden end to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-19
General Wood. Rule

The author once asked General
Wood his rules Of life. He replied,
"Alway volunteer. no matter how
dangerous or unpromising the task.
"Oncs you have volunteered, nsver
stop fighting. Do things. and don't
talk about them. During the process
you are likely 70 discover opportun-
ity; eventually you can win thru
to success" His face widensd out
into its Characteristic Aggressive
smile. "and then you win have the
pleasure OF hearing unenterprisins
men who would never take q chance
allude to your achievements as due
solely to luck and influence."-E r.
Wood in life Of Leonard Wood"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-19
Topics Of the Times

Socialists arc asking Secretary
Baker to release all conscientious OBJ
jectors. II it possible that the see-
rotary overlooked any OF the,n7
80
A South Dakota farmer cashed q
check for $500 az the proceeds from
1000 pounds OF alfalfa seed. Two
thousand five hundred dollars would
have bought county in South Da-
kota less than 4 lifetime ago.
80
Blaming Penrose for everything IL
getting to be q habit. Even Daniels
says Penrose II to blame for his
troubles. However, he hasn't been
accused of winning the war yet.
Even II Old Mr.. Carransa loses his
money there's always the chautau-
qua to fall back on. And IL that
fails he could start drive" for the
benefit Of something and somebody.
OF course some folks will feel and
express q maudlin SYMPATHY for
Beasley because he killed himself on
his wife's grave. But Beaslsy dug
that grave. It u rather g. pity that
he was not captured. convicted and
hanged for his crime. \
Whenever the shameless waste OF
the millions patriotic people gladly
paid toward carrying on the war II
exposes the cry arises that it is a
partisan assault on the administra-
ton. But that outory doesn't fool
anybody. Facts are facts.
There isn't . single democrat run
ming tor office In Lyon county. Wal.
you can't blame the boys under the
circumstances.
The householder who negleots his
insurance nowadays 10 playing leap
frog with disaster. A fire loss means
about double that Of . few years ago.